Title: Small Business Contracting Accountability Act of 2019
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Business Contracting Accountability Act of 2019
This bill requires certain federal agencies (i.e., those with procurement powers) that are in violation of the requirement that they establish an Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization to submit a report detailing the reasons for their noncompliance and the specific actions they will take to comply with the requirement.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2729 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2729

  To require Federal agencies to report to Congress on non-compliance 
 with the requirements applicable to the Office of Small Business and 
Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Federal agency, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2019

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Risch) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small 
                     Business and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require Federal agencies to report to Congress on non-compliance 
 with the requirements applicable to the Office of Small Business and 
Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Federal agency, 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 ``Small Business Contracting 
Accountability Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS 
              UTILIZATION.

    Section 15(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(k)) is 
amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
            (1) by inserting after the first sentence the following: 
        ``If the Government Accountability Office has determined that a 
        Federal agency is not in compliance with all of the 
        requirements under this subsection, the Federal agency shall, 
        not later than 120 days after that determination or 120 days 
        after the date of enactment of the Small Business Contracting 
        Accountability Act of 2019, whichever is later, submit to the 
        Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate 
        and the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
        Representatives a report that includes the reasons why the 
        Federal agency is not in compliance and the specific actions 
        that the Federal agency will take to comply with the 
        requirements under this subsection.''; and
            (2) by striking ``The management of each such office'' and 
        inserting ``The management of each Office of Small Business and 
        Disadvantaged Business Utilization''.
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