To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to provide education and resources to small business concerns that assist such concerns to protect themselves from phishing, and for other purposes.

Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish and carry out a program for providing education and resources to small business concerns that assists them in: (1) understanding the dangers and identification of phishing; (2) training employees to understand those dangers and identification; and (3) determining methods to protect such concerns from phishing.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2862 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2862

  To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
provide education and resources to small business concerns that assist 
   such concerns to protect themselves from phishing, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2009

  Mr. Space introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
provide education and resources to small business concerns that assist 
   such concerns to protect themselves from phishing, 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. PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCES TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONCERNS WITH RESPECT TO PHISHING.

    The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 44 as section 45; and
            (2) by inserting after section 43 the following:

``SEC. 44. PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND RESOURCES TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONCERNS WITH RESPECT TO PHISHING.

    ``(a) In General.--The Administrator shall establish and carry out 
a program to provide education and resources to small business concerns 
that assist such concerns to--
            ``(1) understand the dangers of and identify phishing;
            ``(2) train employees to understand the dangers of and 
        identify phishing; and
            ``(3) determine methods to protect such concerns from 
        phishing.
    ``(b) Definition of Phishing.--In this section, the term `phishing' 
means the use by any person of a Web page, electronic mail message, or 
otherwise through use of the Internet, to solicit, request, or take any 
action to induce another person to provide identifying information by 
representing itself to be a business without the authority or approval 
of the business.''.
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