Title: Clarity on Small Business Participation in Category Management Act of 2018
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Clarity on Small Business Participation in Category Management Act of 2018
This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the Small Business Administration's reporting requirements to the President and to Congress on procurement contracts to include spending data in each best in class designation (highest current industry performance level) and total contract amounts awarded to (1) Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses, (2) small businesses owned and controlled by women, (3) small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and (4) socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6382 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6382

  To amend the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the 
  Small Business Administration to report certain information to the 
         Congress and to the President, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2018

  Ms. Adams introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the 
  Small Business Administration to report certain information to the 
         Congress and to the President, 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 ``Clarity on Small Business 
Participation in Category Management Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING.

    Section 15(h) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(h)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Best in class small business participation 
        reporting.--
                    ``(A) Addendum.--The Administrator, in addition to 
                the requirements under paragraph (1), shall include in 
                the report required by such paragraph, for each best in 
                class designation--
                            ``(i) the total amount of spending 
                        government wide in such designation;
                            ``(ii) the dollar amount of contracts 
                        within such category awarded to each of the 
                        following--
                                    ``(I) HUBZone small business 
                                concerns;
                                    ``(II) small business concerns 
                                owned and controlled by women;
                                    ``(III) small business concerns 
                                owned and controlled by service-
                                disabled veterans; and
                                    ``(IV) socially and economically 
                                disadvantaged small business concerns.
                    ``(B) Best in class.--The term `best in class' has 
                the meaning given to it by the Director of the Office 
                of Management and Budget.''.
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