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Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of 
the Senate a report on any data collection activities related 
to the Small Business Development Center Program.’’. 
(c) WORKING GROUP TO IMPROVE DATA COLLEC-
TION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT AND STUDY.—The Admin-
istrator of the Small Business Administration shall 
establish a group to be known as the ‘‘Data Collec-
tion Working Group’’ consisting of entrepreneurial 
development grant recipients, the associations and 
organizations representing such recipients, and offi-
cials from the Small Business Administration, to 
carry out a study to determine the best methods for 
conducting data collection activities and create or re-
vise existing systems dedicated to data collection. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than the end of the 
180-day period beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Data Collection Working 
Group shall issue a report to the Committee on 
Small Business of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Small Business and Entrepre-
neurship of the Senate containing the findings and 
determinations made in carrying out the study re-
quired under paragraph (1), including— 
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(A) recommendations for revising existing 
data collection practices for the Small Business 
Development Center Program; and 
(B) a proposed plan for the Administrator 
of the Small Business Administration to imple-
ment such recommendations. 
SEC. 5. FEES FROM PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND CO-
SPONSORSHIPS. 
Section 21(a)(3) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(D) FEES FROM PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND 
COSPONSORSHIPS.—A small business development 
center that participates in a private partnership or 
cosponsorship, in which the Administrator or des-
ignee of the Administrator also participates, may 
collect fees or other income related to the operation 
of such private partnership or cosponsorship.’’. 
SEC. 6. EQUITY FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CEN-
TERS. 
Subclause (I) of section 21(a)(4)(C)(v) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 648(a)(4)(C)(v)(I)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts made 
available in any fiscal year to carry out this sec-
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tion, not more than $600,000 may be used by 
the Administration to pay expenses enumerated 
in subparagraphs (B) through (D) of section 
20(a)(1).’’. 
SEC. 7. CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 21(a)(7)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(7)(A)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or telephone number’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, telephone number, or email address’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, or the nature or content of 
such assistance, to any State, local, or Federal agen-
cy, or to any third party’’ after ‘‘receiving assistance 
under this section’’. 
SEC. 8. LIMITATION ON AWARD OF GRANTS TO SMALL 
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 21 of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 648), as amended by section 4, is further 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘any women’s business 
center operating pursuant to section 29,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘or a women’s business 
center operating pursuant to section 29’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘and women’s business 
centers operating pursuant to section 29’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(q) LIMITATION ON AWARD OF GRANTS.—Except 
for not-for-profit institutions of higher education, and not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator 
may not award a grant or contract to, or enter into a coop-
erative agreement with, an entity under this section unless 
that entity— 
‘‘(1) received a grant or contract from, or en-
tered into a cooperative agreement with, the Admin-
istrator under this section before the date of the en-
actment of this subsection; and 
‘‘(2) seeks to renew such a grant, contract, or 
cooperative agreement after such date.’’. 
(b) RULE
OF CONSTRUCTION.—The amendments 
made by this section may not be construed as prohibiting 
a women’s business center (as described under section 29 
of the Small Business Act) from receiving a subgrant from 
an entity receiving a grant under section 21 of the Small 
Business Act. 
SEC. 9. MANAGEMENT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES. 
Section 21(a)(3) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(3)), as amended by section 4, is further 
amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘upon, with full participation of both 
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parties,’’ and inserting ‘‘upon with the full participa-
tion of all parties (including the association author-
ized in subparagraph (A)), and carried out’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and de-
velop’’ and inserting ‘‘and negotiate the development 
of’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Whereas’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘Program’’ after ‘‘Cen-
ter’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘National’’ and inserting 
‘‘national’’; and 
(D) by moving such subparagraph 2 ems 
to the left. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FOR-
MULA GRANTS RECEIVED BY STATES. 
Section 21(a)(4)(C) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(4)(C)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (vii), by striking ‘‘subparagraph’’ 
and all that follows through the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph $175,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2022 through 2025.’’; and 
(2) in clause (viii), by striking ‘‘shall reserve 
not less than $1,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘shall re-
serve not more than $2,000,000’’. 
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SEC. 11. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO MATCHING FUNDS. 
Section 21(a)(4)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(4)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘Such matching funds shall be 
evidenced by good faith assertions from the applicant, and 
the expenditure of matching funds shall not be made a 
prerequisite of the reimbursement of Federal funds, not-
withstanding the final reconciliation payment for the close- 
out of each award.’’. 
SEC. 12. CONTRACT PREREQUISITES. 
Section 21(a)(5)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(a)(5)(B)) is amended by striking the second 
sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘Each contract shall 
be deemed approved under subparagraph (A) unless the 
Associate Administrator certifies in writing within 15 
business days after award of the contract that the contract 
will not provide assistance to small business concerns and 
that performance of the contract will hinder the small 
business development center in carrying out the terms of 
the grant received by the small business development cen-
ter under this section.’’. 
SEC. 13. DUTIES OF THE ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR 
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS. 
Section 21(h)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 648(h)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
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‘‘(C) MARKETING.—The Associate Admin-
istrator for Small Business Development Cen-
ters shall market and advertise the Small Busi-
ness Development Center Program and partici-
pants in such Program as a resource available 
to any Federal program providing assistance to 
small business concerns, including the FAST 
program established under section 34.’’. 
SEC. 14. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 26, 2022. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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