I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 108 
To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration to establish a program to provide regulatory 
compliance assistance to small business concerns, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2007 
Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration to establish 
a program to provide regulatory compliance assistance 
to small business concerns, 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 ‘‘National Small Busi-
ness Regulatory Assistance Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to establish a program 
to— 
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(1) provide confidential assistance to small 
business concerns; 
(2) provide small business concerns with the in-
formation necessary to improve their rate of compli-
ance with Federal and State regulations; 
(3) create a partnership among Federal agen-
cies to increase outreach efforts to small business 
concerns with respect to regulatory compliance; 
(4) provide a mechanism for unbiased feedback 
to Federal agencies on the regulatory environment 
for small business concerns; and 
(5) utilize the service delivery network of Small 
Business Development Centers to improve access of 
small business concerns to programs to assist them 
with regulatory compliance. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the definitions set forth in section 37(a) 
of the Small Business Act (as added by section 4 of this 
Act) shall apply. 
SEC. 4. SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PRO-
GRAM. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 37 as section 99; 
and 
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(2) by inserting after section 36 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 37. SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PRO-
GRAM. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following 
definitions apply: 
‘‘(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘Adminis-
trator’ means the Administrator of the Small Busi-
ness Administration, acting through the Associate 
Administrator for Small Business Development Cen-
ters. 
‘‘(2) ASSOCIATION.—The term ‘Association’ 
means the association recognized by the Adminis-
trator of the Small Business Administration under 
section 21(a)(3)(A). 
‘‘(3) PARTICIPATING SMALL BUSINESS DEVEL-
OPMENT
CENTER.—The term ‘participating Small 
Business Development Center’ means a Small Busi-
ness Development Center participating in the pro-
gram. 
‘‘(4) PROGRAM.—The term ‘program’ means 
the regulatory assistance program established under 
this section. 
‘‘(5) REGULATORY COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE.— 
The term ‘regulatory compliance assistance’ means 
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assistance provided by a Small Business Develop-
ment Center to a small business concern to enable 
the concern to comply with Federal regulatory re-
quirements. 
‘‘(6) SMALL
BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
CEN-
TER.—The term ‘Small Business Development Cen-
ter’ means a Small Business Development Center 
described in section 21. 
‘‘(7) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
and Guam. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORITY.—In accordance with this section, 
the Administrator shall establish a program to provide 
regulatory compliance assistance to small business con-
cerns through participating Small Business Development 
Centers, the Association, and Federal compliance partner-
ship programs. 
‘‘(c) SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the pro-
gram, the Administrator shall enter into arrange-
ments with participating Small Business Develop-
ment Centers under which such centers will pro-
vide— 
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‘‘(A) access to information and resources, 
including current Federal and State nonpuni-
tive compliance and technical assistance pro-
grams similar to those established under section 
507 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990; 
‘‘(B) training and educational activities; 
‘‘(C) confidential, free-of-charge, one-on- 
one, in-depth counseling to the owners and op-
erators of small business concerns regarding 
compliance with Federal and State regulations, 
provided that such counseling is not considered 
to be the practice of law in a State in which a 
Small Business Development Center is located 
or in which such counseling is conducted; 
‘‘(D) technical assistance; and 
‘‘(E) referrals to experts and other pro-
viders of compliance assistance who meet such 
standards for educational, technical, and profes-
sional competency as are established by the Ad-
ministrator. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Each participating 
Small Business Development Center shall trans-
mit to the Administrator a quarterly report that 
includes— 
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