Small Business Contracting Transparency Act of 2024
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to submit annual reports to Congress starting in 2024, focusing on three categories of small businesses: those owned and controlled by women, HUBZone-certified businesses, and those owned by service-disabled veterans. The reports must include detailed data such as certification rates, contract award amounts and percentages, examination results, and decertification numbers for each category. These reports aim to increase transparency about how federal contracting programs for these business groups operate, without changing eligibility rules or creating new requirements for businesses. The SBA must submit these reports by May 1 each year to the relevant congressional committees.
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Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
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Introduced Mar 19, 2024
Last action May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Shaheen with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
upper
May 22, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
upper
Mar 20, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
upper
Mar 19, 2024
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
upper
Mar 19, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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