To amend the Small Business Act to allow more joint ventures, leader-follower arrangements, and teaming arrangements under the section 8(a) minority business development program.

Amends the Small Business Act to allow joint ventures, leader-follower arrangements, and teaming agreements among qualifed Capital Ownership Development Program participants, and between participants other small businesses, with respect to any Federal contracting opportunity.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 166 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 166

 To amend the Small Business Act to allow more joint ventures, leader-
follower arrangements, and teaming arrangements under the section 8(a) 
                 minority business development program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2005

    Ms. Millender-McDonald 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 allow more joint ventures, leader-
follower arrangements, and teaming arrangements under the section 8(a) 
                 minority business development program.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL JOINT VENTURES, ETC, ALLOWED UNDER SMALL 
              DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

    Subparagraph (H) of section 7(j)(13) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 636(j)(13)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(H) Joint ventures, leader-follower arrangements, 
                and teaming agreements between the Program Participant 
                and other Program Participants and other small business 
                concerns with respect to any contracting opportunity. 
                Such activities shall be undertaken on the basis of 
                programs developed by the agency responsible for the 
                procurement, with the assistance of the 
                Administration.''.
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