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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 4341 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Small Business Act to improve transparency and clarity for small businesses, to clarify the role of smal... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title

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This Act may be cited as the . Defending America’s Small Contractors Act of 2016 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Title I—Improving Transparency and Clarity for Small Businesses Sec. 101. Plain language rewrite of requirements for small business procurements. Sec. 102. Improving reporting on small business goals. Sec. 103. Transparency in small business goals. Sec. 104. Uniformity in procurement terminology. Title II—Clarifying the Roles of Small Business Advocates Sec. 201.
Duties of procurement center representatives with respect to reviewing solicitations. Sec. 202. Responsibilities of Commercial Market Representatives. Sec. 203. Duties of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Sec. 204. Improving contractor compliance. Title III—Strengthening Opportunities for Competition in Subcontracting Sec. 301. Good faith in subcontracting. Sec. 302. Pilot program to provide opportunities for qualified subcontractors to obtain past performance ratings.
Title IV—Mentor-Protege Programs Sec. 401. Amendments to the Mentor-Protege Program of the Department of Defense. Sec. 402. Improving cooperation between the mentor-protege programs of the Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense. Title V—Miscellaneous Sec. 501. Improving education on small business regulations. Sec. 502. Protecting task order competition. Sec. 503. Improvements to size standards for small agricultural producers. Sec. 504. Uniformity in service-disabled veteran definitions.
Sec. 505. GAO review of the Office of Government Contracting and Business Development of the Small Business Administration.
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