115th CONGRESS 2d Session |
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.
July 16, 2018
Ms. Adams introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business
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,
This Act may be cited as the “Clarity on Small Business Participation in Category Management Act of 2018”.
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.”.