I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 924 
To amend the Small Business Act to establish a Veterans Business Center 
program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 3, 2011 
Mr. HEINRICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to establish a Veterans 
Business Center program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs for Veterans Act 
of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. VETERANS BUSINESS CENTER PROGRAM. 
Section 32 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
657b) is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (f), by inserting ‘‘(other than 
subsections (g), (h), and (i))’’ after ‘‘this section’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) VETERANS BUSINESS CENTER PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish a Veterans Business Center program within 
the Administration to provide entrepreneurial train-
ing and counseling to veterans in accordance with 
this subsection. 
‘‘(2) DIRECTOR
AND
REGIONAL
COORDINA-
TORS.— 
‘‘(A) DIRECTOR.—The Administrator shall 
appoint a Director of the Veterans Business 
Center program, who shall implement and over-
see such program and who shall report directly 
to the Associate Administrator for Veterans 
Business Development. 
‘‘(B) REGIONAL COORDINATORS.—The Di-
rector may appoint regional veterans business 
center coordinators to oversee and coordinate 
the efforts of veterans business centers. 
‘‘(3) DESIGNATION
OF
VETERANS
BUSINESS 
CENTERS.—The Director shall establish by regula-
tion an application, review, and notification process 
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to designate entities as veterans business centers for 
purposes of this section. The Director shall make 
publicly known the designation of an entity as a vet-
erans business center and the award of a grant to 
such center under this subsection. 
‘‘(4) FUNDING FOR VETERANS BUSINESS CEN-
TERS.— 
‘‘(A) INITIAL
GRANTS.—The Director is 
authorized to make a grant (hereinafter in this 
subsection referred to as an ‘initial grant’) to 
each veterans business center each year, for not 
more than 5 years, in the amount of $200,000. 
‘‘(B) GROWTH FUNDING GRANTS.—After a 
veterans business center has received 5 years of 
initial grants under subparagraph (A), the Di-
rector is authorized to make a grant (herein-
after in this subsection referred to as a ‘growth 
funding grant’) to such center each year, for 
not more than 3 years, in the amount of 
$150,000. After such center has received 3 
years of growth funding grants, the Director 
shall require such center to meet performance 
benchmarks established by the Director to be 
eligible for growth funding grants in subsequent 
years. 
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