IIB 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1842 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship 
AN ACT 
To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small 
Business Administration’s entrepreneurial development 
programs, 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 ‘‘Expanding Entrepre-
neurship Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 
Section 4 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION.— 
‘‘(1) PLAN FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOP-
MENT AND JOB CREATION STRATEGY.—The Admin-
istrator shall develop and submit to Congress a plan, 
in consultation with a representative from each of 
the agency’s entrepreneurial development programs, 
for using the Small Business Administration’s entre-
preneurial development programs to create jobs dur-
ing fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The plan shall in-
clude the Administration’s plan for drawing on exist-
ing programs, including Small Business Develop-
ment Centers, Women’s Business Centers, SCORE, 
Veterans Business Centers, Native American Out-
reach, and other appropriate programs. The Admin-
istrator shall identify a strategy for each Adminis-
tration region to create or retain jobs through Ad-
ministration programs. The Administrator shall 
identify, in consultation with appropriate personnel 
from entrepreneurial development programs, per-
formance measures and criteria, including job cre-
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ation, job retention, and job retraining goals, to 
evaluate the success of the Administration’s actions 
regarding these efforts. 
‘‘(2) DATA
COLLECTION
PROCESS.—The Ad-
ministrator shall, after notice and opportunity for 
comment, promulgate a rule to develop and imple-
ment a consistent data collection process to cover all 
entrepreneurial development programs. Such data 
collection process shall include data relating to job 
creation, performance, and any other data deter-
mined appropriate by the Administrator with respect 
to the Administration’s entrepreneurial development 
programs. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATION AND ALIGNMENT OF SBA 
ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS.— 
The Administrator shall submit annually to Con-
gress, in consultation with other Federal depart-
ments and agencies as appropriate, a report on op-
portunities to foster coordination, limit duplication, 
and improve program delivery for Federal entrepre-
neurial development programs. 
‘‘(4) DATABASE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVEL-
OPMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS.—The Administrator 
shall, after a period of 60 days for public comment, 
establish a database of providers of entrepreneurial 
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development services and, make such database avail-
able through the Administration’s Web site. The 
database shall be searchable by industry, geography, 
and service required. 
‘‘(5) COMMUNITY
SPECIALIST.—The Adminis-
trator shall designate not less than one staff member 
in each Administration district office as a commu-
nity specialist who has as their full-time responsi-
bility working with local entrepreneurial development 
service providers to increase coordination with Fed-
eral resources. The Administrator shall develop 
benchmarks for measuring the performance of com-
munity specialists under this subsection. 
‘‘(6) ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENT
POR-
TAL.—The Administrator shall publish a design for 
a Web-based portal to provide comprehensive infor-
mation on the Administration’s entrepreneurial de-
velopment programs. After a period of 60 days for 
public comment, the Administrator shall establish 
such portal and— 
‘‘(A) integrate under one Web portal, 
Small Business Development Centers, Women’s 
Business Centers, SCORE, Veterans Business 
Centers, the Administration’s distance learning 
program, and other programs as appropriate; 
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‘‘(B) revise the Administration’s primary 
Web site so that the Web portal described in 
subparagraph (A) is available as a link on the 
main Web page of the Web site; 
‘‘(C) increase consumer-oriented content 
on the Administration’s Web site and focus on 
promoting access to business solutions, includ-
ing marketing, financing, and human resources 
planning; 
‘‘(D) establish relevant Web content aggre-
gated by industry segment, stage of business 
development, level of need, and include referral 
links to appropriate Administration services, in-
cluding financing, training and counseling, and 
procurement assistance; and 
‘‘(E) provide style guidelines and links for 
visitors to the Administration’s Web site to be 
able to comment on and evaluate the materials 
in terms of their usefulness. 
‘‘(7) PILOT
PROGRAMS.—The Administrator 
may not conduct any pilot program for a period of 
greater than 3 years if the program conflicts with, 
or uses the resources of, any of the entrepreneurial 
development programs authorized under section 
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8(b)(1)(B), 21, 29, 32, or any other provision of this 
Act.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 18, 
2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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