Title: Small Contractor Stability Act of 2020
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Contractor Stability Act of 2020
This bill raises the caps on sole-source contracts for specified small businesses, and it temporarily authorizes a federal contracting officer to award sole-source contracts to specified small businesses if the award prices for such contracts will not exceed maximum permissible amounts.
A sole-source contract is a contract that may be issued without a competitive bidding process.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6320 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6320

    To amend the Small Business Act to increase caps on sole source 
   contract awards to certain small business concerns, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2020

  Mr. Veasey 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 increase caps on sole source 
   contract awards to certain small business concerns, 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 Contractor Stability Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. SOLE SOURCE CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``contracting officer'' has the meaning given 
        the term in section 36(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        657f(e));
            (2) the term ``economically disadvantaged women-owned small 
        business'' has the meaning given the term in section 127.102 of 
        title 13, Code of Federal Regulations, or any succcessor 
        regulation;
            (3) the term ``HUBZone small business concern'' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 31(b) of the Small Business 
        Act (15 U.S.C. 657a(b));
            (4) the term ``SCORE'' means the Service Corps of Retired 
        Executives program established under section 8(b)(1)(B) of the 
        Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B));
            (5) the term ``small business concern owned and controlled 
        by service-disabled veterans'' has the meaning given the term 
        in section 3(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)); 
        and
            (6) the term ``small business concern owned and controlled 
        by women'' has the meaning given the term in section 8(m) of 
        the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(m)).
    (b) Temporary Sole-Source Award Parity Among Contracting 
Programs.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, 
during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this section 
and ending on September 30, 2021, with respect to a small business 
concern owned and controlled by women, an economically disadvantaged 
women-owned small business, a HUBZone small business concern, or a 
small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled 
veterans, a contracting officer may award a sole source contract to the 
small business concern if the anticipated award price of the contract 
will not exceed the maximum permissible amount for the contract, as 
provided under the applicable provision of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 631 et seq.), as amended by this subsection.
    (c) Increasing Sole Source Caps.--
            (1) Qualified hubzone small business concerns.--Section 
        31(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        657a(c)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended--
                    (A) in subclause (I), by striking ``$5,000,000'' 
                and inserting ``$10,000,000''; and
                    (B) in subclause (II), by striking ``$3,000,000'' 
                and inserting ``$8,000,000''.
            (2) Small business concerns owned and controlled by 
        service-disabled veterans.--Section 36(a)(2) of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f(a)(2)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``$5,000,000'' 
                and inserting ``$10,000,000''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``$3,000,000'' 
                and inserting ``$8,000,000''.
            (3) Small business concerns owned and controlled by 
        socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.--Section 
        8(a)(1)(D)(i)(II) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        637(a)(1)(D)(i)(II)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``$5,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$10,000,000''; and
                    (B) by striking ``$3,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$8,000,000''.
            (4) Certain small business concerns owned and controlled by 
        women.--Section 8(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        637(m)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (7)(B)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by striking 
                        ``$6,500,000'' and inserting ``$10,000,000''; 
                        and
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by striking 
                        ``$4,000,000'' and inserting ``$8,000,000''; 
                        and
                    (B) in paragraph (8)(B)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by striking 
                        ``$6,500,000'' and inserting ``$10,000,000''; 
                        and
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by striking 
                        ``$4,000,000'' and inserting ``$8,000,000''.
    (d) 8(a) Extension.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall allow a participant in the program established 
under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act on the date of enactment 
of this section to extend such participation by a period of 1 year.
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