Title: Streamlining Small Disadvantaged Businesses Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Streamlining Small Disadvantaged Businesses Act
This bill directs the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot program to certify qualifying small business concerns as owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6514 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6514

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
establish a pilot program for certifying the status of a small business 
 concern as a small business concern owned and controlled by socially 
  and economically disadvantaged individuals, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2018

Ms. Clarke of New York (for herself, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Luetkemeyer, and 
  Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
establish a pilot program for certifying the status of a small business 
 concern as a small business concern owned and controlled by socially 
  and economically disadvantaged individuals, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Streamlining Small Disadvantaged 
Businesses Act''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM TO CERTIFY SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND 
              CONTROLLED BY SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 6 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall establish a pilot program under which a small 
business concern may apply to the Administrator to be certified as a 
small business concern owned and controlled by socially and 
economically disadvantaged individuals. Such system shall--
            (1) require a small business concern to submit such 
        information as the Administrator shall require; and
            (2) be made available through a website.
    (b) Use of Certification.--A certification obtained by a small 
business concern under subsection (a) may be used by a Federal agency, 
State, or unit of local government to determine whether such concern is 
a small business concern owned and controlled by socially and 
economically disadvantaged individuals.
    (c) Timing for Certification.--The Administrator shall make a 
determination on the certification of a small business concern as a 
small business concern owned and controlled by socially and 
economically disadvantaged individuals not later than 60 days after 
receipt of a complete application under subsection (a).
    (d) Termination.--The pilot program established under this section 
shall terminate on the date that is 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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