To amend the Small Business Act to increase the minimum Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small business concerns.

Amends the Small Business Act to increase the Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small businesses, and small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or women to 25 percent (currently 23 percent) of the total amount of Federal procurement contracts awarded in a fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3638 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3638

To amend the Small Business Act to increase the minimum Government-wide 
   goal for procurement contracts awarded to small business concerns.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2002

   Mr. Wynn 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 the minimum Government-wide 
   goal for procurement contracts awarded to small business concerns.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT-WIDE GOAL FOR PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS 
              AWARDED TO SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.

    Section 15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)) is 
amended by striking ``23 percent'' and inserting ``25 percent''.
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