Title: Small Business Scorecard Enhancements Act of 2022
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Business Scorecard Enhancements Act of 2022
This bill revises the Small Business Administration annual scorecard assessment, which is used to evaluate whether each federal agency is meeting its goals for the award of prime contracts and subcontracts to small business concerns.
Specifically, the bill requires the scorecard for each federal agency to include the number and total dollar amount of awards made to (1) small businesses owned by women, (2) qualified HUBZone small businesses, (3) small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, and (4) socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9016 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9016

To amend the Small Business Act to codify the scorecard program of the 
         Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2022

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Meuser) 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 codify the scorecard program of the 
         Small Business Administration, 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 Scorecard 
Enhancements Act of 2022''.

SECTION 2. CODIFICATION OF SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCORECARD.

    (a) In General.--Section 868(b) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (15 U.S.C. 644 note) is 
transferred to section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644), 
inserted after subsection (x), redesignated as subsection (y), and 
amended--
            (1) by striking paragraphs (1), (6), and (7);
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as 
        paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively;
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (6);
            (4) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``Beginning in'' and all that follows through ``to evaluate'' 
        and inserting ``The Administrator shall use a scorecard to 
        annually evaluate'';
            (5) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``developed under paragraph 
                        (1)''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``and Governmentwide'' 
                        after ``each Federal agency''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``section 
                15(g)(1)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
                644(g)(1)(B))'' and inserting ``subsection (g)(1)(B)'';
            (6) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``paragraph 
                (3)(A)'' and inserting ``paragraph (2)(A)''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``paragraph 
                (3)'' and inserting ``paragraph (2)'';
            (7) by inserting after paragraph (3) (as so redesignated) 
        the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Additional requirements for scorecards.--The 
        scorecard shall include, for each Federal agency and 
        Governmentwide, the following information with respect to prime 
        contracts:
                    ``(A) The number (expressed as a percentage) and 
                total dollar amount of awards made to small business 
                concerns owned and controlled by women through sole 
                source contracts and competitions restricted to small 
                business concerns owned and controlled by women under 
                section 8(m).
                    ``(B) The number (expressed as a percentage) and 
                total dollar amount of awards made to small business 
                concerns owned and controlled by qualified HUBZone 
                small business concerns through sole source contracts 
                and competitions restricted to qualified HUBZone small 
                business concerns under section 31(c)(2).
                    ``(C) The number (expressed as a percentage) and 
                total dollar amount of awards made to small business 
                concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled 
                veterans through sole source contracts and competitions 
                restricted to small business concerns owned and 
                controlled by service-disabled veterans under section 
                36.
                    ``(D) The number (expressed as a percentage) and 
                total dollar amount of awards made to socially and 
                economically disadvantaged small business concerns 
                under section 8(a) through sole source contracts and 
                competitions restricted to socially and economically 
                disadvantaged small business concerns, disaggregated by 
                awards made to such concerns that are owned and 
                controlled by individuals and awards made to such 
                concerns that are owned and controlled by an entity.'';
            (8) in paragraph (5), by striking ``section 15(h)(2) of the 
        Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(h)(2))'' and inserting 
        ``subsection (h)(2)''; and
            (9) by amending paragraph (6) (as so redesignated) to read 
        as follows:
            ``(6) Scorecard defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        `scorecard' means any summary using a rating system to evaluate 
        the efforts of a Federal agency to meet goals established under 
        subsection (g)(1)(B) that--
                    ``(A) includes the information described in 
                paragraph (2); and
                    ``(B) assigns a score to each Federal agency 
                evaluated.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 15(x)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        644(x)(2)) is amended by striking ``scorecard described in 
        section 868(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
        Fiscal Year 2016 (15 U.S.C. 644 note)'' and inserting 
        ``scorecard (as defined in subsection (y))''.
            (2) Section 3(6) of the PRICE Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-
        88; 41 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(6) Scorecard.--The term `scorecard' has the meaning 
        given in section 15(y) of the Small Business Act.''.
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