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Legislative Update
Several bills that impact small business federal contractors and entrepreneurs advanced in Congress in 2019 and up to the present.
Here are some of the recent actions on small business-related bills in the House and/or Senate:
The House last week passed HR 5146, sponsored by Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-MN, to require federal contracting officers to consider a small business’ past performance as part of a joint venture into account when evaluating the small business for federal prime contracts.
The bill is intended to address situations in which small vendors that have performed work as part of a joint venture often are not able to document and receive “past performance” credit for such experiences.
Contracting officers also would be required to accept past performance information provided by a prime contractor regarding its subcontractor.
The House last week OK’d HR 5078 , the Prison to Proprietorship Act, sponsored by Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-NY, chair of the House Small Business Committee. It directs the SBA and the Bureau of Prisons to oversee Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) mentorships for formerly incarcerated people to help them become entrepreneurs. The House also approved related bill HR 5065.
HR 4407, the SCORE for Small Business Act, was approved in the House in October to reauthorize the SCORE mentoring program for small businesses through fiscal 2022. The legislation, pending in the Senate, outlines the duties of the SCORE Association and requires the Small Business Administration to cooperate with the association to carry out the program.
Congress passed the SECURE Act of 2019, which was included in the year-end consolidated appropriations package in December. It has several provisions to make it easier for small businesses to offer retirement plans to employees.
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