IIB 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6450 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 27, 2022 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship 
AN ACT 
To amend the Small Business Act to reauthorize the SCORE 
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, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SCORE for Small 
Business Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. SCORE PROGRAM PROVISIONS AND REQUIRE-
MENTS. 
Section 8 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)(B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘a Service Corps of Retired 
Executives (SCORE)’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
SCORE program described in subsection (c)’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘SCORE may’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘the SCORE Association (as defined in 
subsection (c)) may’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(c) SCORE PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) SCORE 
ASSOCIATION.—The term 
‘SCORE Association’ means the Service Corps 
of Retired Executives Association or any suc-
cessor or other organization that enters into a 
cooperative agreement (as described under 
paragraph (2)) with the Administrator to oper-
ate the SCORE program. 
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‘‘(B) SCORE FOUNDATION.—The term 
‘SCORE Foundation’ means an organization 
with a mission to support the SCORE Associa-
tion and volunteers of the SCORE program. 
‘‘(C) 
SCORE 
PROGRAM.—The 
term 
‘SCORE program’ means the SCORE program 
authorized by subsection (b)(1)(B). 
‘‘(2) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT.—The Admin-
istrator shall enter into a cooperative agreement 
with the SCORE Association to carry out the 
SCORE program, which shall include the following 
requirements: 
‘‘(A) ADMINISTRATOR
DUTIES.—The Ad-
ministrator shall— 
‘‘(i) every 2 years, conduct a financial 
examination of the SCORE Association to 
ensure that any costs paid for with Federal 
funds are allowable, allocable, and reason-
able; 
‘‘(ii) review and approve contracts en-
tered into by the SCORE Association to 
provide goods or services for the SCORE 
program of a value greater than an 
amount determined by the Administrator; 
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‘‘(iii) maintain a system through 
which the SCORE Association provides 
documentation relating to such contracts; 
and 
‘‘(iv) within 30 days of the receipt of 
a quarterly report on the achievements of 
the SCORE program submitted by the 
SCORE Association, reconcile differences 
between such report and the performance 
results of the SCORE program reported in 
a management information system of the 
Office of Entrepreneurial Development. 
‘‘(B) SCORE ASSOCIATION DUTIES.—The 
SCORE Association shall— 
‘‘(i) manage nationwide chapters of 
the SCORE program; 
‘‘(ii) provide annual training to em-
ployees of the SCORE Association on gen-
erating and using program income from 
the SCORE program; 
‘‘(iii) submit documentation to the 
Administrator verifying such annual train-
ing is completed; 
‘‘(iv) separate funds donated to the 
SCORE Association from program income 
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and funds received pursuant to a coopera-
tive agreement; and 
‘‘(v) maintain and enforce require-
ments for volunteers participating in the 
SCORE program, including requirements 
that each such volunteer shall— 
‘‘(I) based on the business expe-
rience and knowledge of the volun-
teer— 
‘‘(aa) provide personal coun-
seling, mentoring, and coaching 
on the process of starting, ex-
panding, managing, buying, and 
selling a business at no cost to 
individuals who own, or aspire to 
own, small business concerns; 
and 
‘‘(bb) facilitate free or low- 
cost education workshops for in-
dividuals who own, or aspire to 
own, small business concerns; 
and 
‘‘(II) as appropriate, use tools, 
resources, and expertise of other orga-
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