IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1834 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship 
AN ACT 
To amend the Small Business Act to expand and improve 
the assistance provided to Indian tribe members, Alaska 
Natives, and Native Hawaiians, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American Busi-
ness Development Enhancement Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS; TRIBAL 
BUSINESS 
INFORMATION 
CENTERS 
PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR.—Section 4(b)(1) of 
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633(b)(1)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘five Associate Administrators’’ 
and inserting ‘‘six Associate Administrators’’; and 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘vested in the Adminis-
tration.’’ the following: ‘‘One such Associate Admin-
istrator shall be the Associate Administrator for Na-
tive American Affairs, who shall administer the Of-
fice of Native American Affairs established under 
section 44.’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 44 as section 45; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 43 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 44. OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS AND 
TRIBAL BUSINESS INFORMATION CENTERS 
PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) OFFICE OF NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS.— 
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in 
the Administration an Office of Native American Af-
fairs (hereinafter referred to in this subsection as 
the ‘Office’). 
‘‘(2) ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR.—The Office 
shall be administered by an Associate Administrator 
appointed under section 4(b)(1). 
‘‘(3) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Office shall have 
the following responsibilities: 
‘‘(A) Developing and implementing tools 
and strategies to increase Native American en-
trepreneurship. 
‘‘(B) Expanding the access of Native 
American entrepreneurs to business training, fi-
nancing, and Federal small business contracts. 
‘‘(C) Expanding outreach to Native Amer-
ican communities and marketing entrepre-
neurial development services to such commu-
nities. 
‘‘(D) Representing the Administration with 
respect to Native American economic develop-
ment matters. 
‘‘(4) COORDINATION
AND
OVERSIGHT
FUNC-
TION.—The Office shall provide oversight with re-
spect to and assist the implementation of all Admin-
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istration initiatives relating to Native American en-
trepreneurial development. 
‘‘(5) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
To carry out this subsection, there is authorized to 
be appropriated to the Administrator $2,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2010 and 2011. 
‘‘(b) TRIBAL
BUSINESS
INFORMATION
CENTERS 
PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator is 
authorized to operate, alone or in coordination with 
other Federal departments and agencies, a Tribal 
Business Information Centers program that provides 
Native American populations with business training 
and entrepreneurial development assistance. 
‘‘(2) DESIGNATION OF CENTERS.—The Admin-
istrator shall designate entities as centers under the 
Tribal Business Information Centers program. 
‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT.—The Admin-
istrator may contribute agency personnel and re-
sources to the centers designated under paragraph 
(2) to carry out this subsection. 
‘‘(4) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Administrator is 
authorized to make grants of not more than 
$300,000 to centers designated under paragraph (2) 
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for the purpose of providing Native Americans the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Business workshops. 
‘‘(B) Individualized business counseling. 
‘‘(C) Entrepreneurial development train-
ing. 
‘‘(D) Access to computer technology and 
other resources to start or expand a business. 
‘‘(5) REGULATIONS.—The Administrator shall 
by regulation establish a process for designating cen-
ters under paragraph (2) and making the grants au-
thorized under paragraph (4). 
‘‘(6) DEFINITION OF ADMINISTRATOR.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘Administrator’ means the Ad-
ministrator, acting through the Associate Adminis-
trator administering the Office of Native American 
Affairs. 
‘‘(7) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
To carry out this subsection, there is authorized to 
be appropriated to the Administrator $15,000,000 
for fiscal year 2010 and $17,000,000 for fiscal year 
2011. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION OF NATIVE AMERICAN.—The term 
‘Native American’ means an Indian tribe member, Alaska 
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Native, or Native Hawaiian as such are defined in section 
21(a)(8) of this Act.’’. 
SEC. 3. SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ASSIST-
ANCE TO INDIAN TRIBE MEMBERS, ALASKA 
NATIVES, AND NATIVE HAWAIIANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 21(a) of the Small Busi-
ness Act (15 U.S.C. 648(a)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(8) ADDITIONAL
GRANT
TO
ASSIST
INDIAN 
TRIBE MEMBERS, ALASKA NATIVES, AND NATIVE HA-
WAIIANS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any applicant in an 
eligible State that is funded by the Administra-
tion as a Small Business Development Center 
may apply for an additional grant to be used 
solely to provide services described in subsection 
(c)(3) to assist with outreach, development, and 
enhancement on Indian lands of small business 
startups and expansions owned by Indian tribe 
members, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawai-
ians. 
‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE STATES.—For purposes of 
subparagraph (A), an eligible State is a State 
that has a combined population of Indian tribe 
members, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawai-
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ians that comprises at least 1 percent of the 
State’s total population, as shown by the latest 
available census. 
‘‘(C) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—An applicant 
for a grant under subparagraph (A) shall sub-
mit to the Administration an application that is 
in such form as the Administration may re-
quire. The application shall include information 
regarding the applicant’s goals and objectives 
for the services to be provided using the grant, 
including— 
‘‘(i) the capability of the applicant to 
provide training and services to a rep-
resentative number of Indian tribe mem-
bers, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawai-
ians; 
‘‘(ii) the location of the Small Busi-
ness Development Center site proposed by 
the applicant; 
‘‘(iii) the required amount of grant 
funding needed by the applicant to imple-
ment the program; and 
‘‘(iv) the extent to which the applicant 
has consulted with local tribal councils. 
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‘‘(D) APPLICABILITY OF GRANT REQUIRE-
MENTS.—An applicant for a grant under sub-
paragraph (A) shall comply with all of the re-
quirements of this section, except that the 
matching funds requirements under paragraph 
(4)(A) shall not apply. 
‘‘(E) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—No 
applicant may receive more than $300,000 in 
grants under this paragraph for any fiscal year. 
‘‘(F) REGULATIONS.—After providing no-
tice and an opportunity for comment and after 
consulting with the Association recognized by 
the Administration pursuant to paragraph 
(3)(A) (but not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this paragraph), the Ad-
ministration shall issue final regulations to 
carry out this paragraph, including regulations 
that establish— 
‘‘(i) standards relating to educational, 
technical, and support services to be pro-
vided by Small Business Development Cen-
ters receiving assistance under this para-
graph; and 
‘‘(ii) standards relating to any work 
plan that the Administration may require a 
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Small Business Development Center receiv-
ing assistance under this paragraph to de-
velop. 
‘‘(G) ADVICE OF LOCAL TRIBAL ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—A Small Business Development Center 
receiving a grant under this paragraph shall re-
quest the advice of a tribal organization on how 
best to provide assistance to Indian tribe mem-
bers, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians 
and where to locate satellite centers to provide 
such assistance. 
‘‘(H) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph, 
the following definitions apply: 
‘‘(i) INDIAN
LANDS.—The term ‘In-
dian lands’ has the meaning given the term 
‘Indian country’ in section 1151 of title 18, 
United States Code, the meaning given the 
term ‘Indian reservation’ in section 151.2 
of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations 
(as in effect on the date of enactment of 
this paragraph), and the meaning given 
the term ‘reservation’ in section 4 of the 
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (25 
U.S.C. 1903). 
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‘‘(ii) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘In-
dian tribe’ means any band, nation, or or-
ganized group or community of Indians lo-
cated in the contiguous United States, and 
the Metlakatla Indian Community, whose 
members are recognized as eligible for the 
services provided to Indians by the Sec-
retary of the Interior because of their sta-
tus as Indians. 
‘‘(iii) INDIAN
TRIBE
MEMBER.—The 
term ‘Indian tribe member’ means a mem-
ber of an Indian tribe (other than an Alas-
ka Native). 
‘‘(iv) ALASKA
NATIVE.—The term 
‘Alaska Native’ has the meaning given the 
term ‘Native’ in section 3(b) of the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
1602(b)). 
‘‘(v) NATIVE
HAWAIIAN.—The term 
‘Native Hawaiian’ means any individual 
who is— 
‘‘(I) a citizen of the United 
States; and 
‘‘(II) a descendant of the aborigi-
nal people, who prior to 1778, occu-
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pied and exercised sovereignty in the 
area that now constitutes the State of 
Hawaii. 
‘‘(vi) TRIBAL
ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘tribal organization’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 4(l) of the In-
dian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(l)). 
‘‘(I) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this paragraph $7,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2010 and 2011. 
‘‘(J) FUNDING LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(i) NONAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN 
LIMITATIONS.—Funding under this para-
graph shall be in addition to the dollar 
program limitations specified in paragraph 
(4). 
‘‘(ii) 
LIMITATION
ON
USE
OF 
FUNDS.—The Administration may carry 
out this paragraph only with amounts ap-
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propriated in advance specifically to carry 
out this paragraph.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 19, 
2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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