§ 634b. Primary functions of Office of Advocacy
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The primary functions of the Office of Advocacy shall be to—
(1)examine the role of small business in the American economy and the contribution which small business can make in improving competition, encouraging economic and social mobility for all citizens, restraining inflation, spurring production, expanding employment opportunities, increasing productivity, promoting exports, stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship, and providing an avenue through which new and untested products and services can be brought to the marketplace;
(2)assess the effectiveness of existing Federal subsidy and assistance programs for small business and the desirability of reducing the emphasis on such existing programs and increasing the emphasis on general assistance programs designed to benefit all small businesses;
(3)measure the direct costs and other effects of government regulation on small businesses; and make legislative and nonlegislative proposals for eliminating excessive or unnecessary regulations of small businesses;
(4)determine the impact of the tax structure on small businesses and make legislative and other proposals for altering the tax structure to enable all small businesses to realize their potential for contributing to the improvement of the Nation’s economic well-being;
(5)study the ability of financial markets and institutions to meet small business credit needs and determine the impact of government demands for credit on small businesses;
(6)determine financial resource availability and to recommend methods for delivery of financial assistance to minority enterprises, including methods for securing equity capital, for generating markets for goods and services, for providing effective business education, more effective management and technical assistance, and training, and for assistance in complying with Federal, State, and local law;
(7)evaluate the efforts of Federal agencies, business and industry to assist minority enterprises;
(8)make such other recommendations as may be appropriate to assist the development and strengthening of minority and other small business enterprises;
(9)recommend specific measures for creating an environment in which all businesses will have the opportunity to complete 1 effectively and expand to their full potential, and to ascertain the common reasons, if any, for small business successes and failures;
(10)determine the desirability of developing a set of rational, objective criteria to be used to define small business, and to develop such criteria, if appropriate;
(11)advise, cooperate with, and consult with, the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States with respect to section 504(e) of title 5; and
(12)evaluate the efforts of each department and agency of the United States, and of private industry, to assist small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, as defined in section 632(q) of this title, and small business concerns owned and controlled by serviced-disabled 2 veterans, as defined in such section 632(q) of this title, and to provide statistical information on the utilization of such programs by such small business concerns, and to make appropriate recommendations to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and to the Congress in order to promote the establishment and growth of those small business concerns.
(Pub. L. 94–305, title II, § 202, June 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 668; Pub. L. 96–481, title II, § 203(b), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2327; Pub. L. 106–50, title VII, § 702, Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 250.)
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- Public Law 96–481To amend the Small Business Act, to provide for the payment of the United States of certain fees and costs incurred by prevailing parties in Federal agency adjudications and in civil actions in courts of the United States, and for other purposes
- Public Law 94–305To amend the Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to provide additional assistance under such Acts, to create a pollution control financing program for small business, and for other purposes
- Public Law 106–50To provide technical, financial, and procurement assistance to veteran owned smallbusinesses, and for other purposes
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- Pub. L. 94–305, title II, § 202
- 90 Stat. 668
- Pub. L. 96–481, title II, § 203(b)
- 94 Stat. 2327
- Pub. L. 106–50, title VII, § 702
- 113 Stat. 250
- Pub. L. 106–50
- Pub. L. 96–481
- section 208 of Pub. L. 96–481
- Pub. L. 104–52
- Pub. L. 103–403, title VI, § 613
- 108 Stat. 4205
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