Bill to Amend the Small Business Act on New Small Business Entrants in the Scorecard Program (SPUR Act)
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The text of a bill in the House of Representatives, 119th Congress, 1st Session, introduced by Mr. Stauber, to amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new small business entrants in the scorecard program. Section 1 gives the short title as the SPUR Act. Section 2 amends Section 15(y) of the Small Business Act to add a measure for the number of new small business entrants awarded prime contracts, and defines "new small business entrant" as a small business concern awarded a prime contract by a Federal agency that has not previously been awarded one. Section 3, titled Compliance With CUTGO, states that no additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated.
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“Bill to Amend the Small Business Act on New Small Business Entrants in the Scorecard Program (SPUR Act).”
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(Original Signature of Member)
H. R. ll
119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new
small business entrants in the scorecard program, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. STAUBER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on llllllllllllll
A BILL
To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements
relating to new small business entrants in the scorecard
program, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Business Pro-
5 curement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025’’ or the
6 ‘‘SPUR Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO SCORECARD REQUIREMENTS.
2 Section 15(y) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
3 644(y)) is amended—
4 (1) in paragraph (2)—
5 (A) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as
6 subparagraph (F); and
7 (B) by inserting after subparagraph (D)
8 the following new subparagraph:
9 ‘‘(E) The number of new small business
10 entrants, including new small business entrants
11 that are small business concerns owned and
12 controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified
13 HUBZone small business concerns, small busi-
14 ness concerns owned and controlled by socially
15 and economically disadvantaged individuals, and
16 small business concerns owned and controlled
17 by women awarded prime contracts in each
18 North American Industry Classification System
19 code during the fiscal year, and a comparison
20 to the number awarded prime contracts during
21 the prior fiscal year, if available.’’;
22 (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘subpara-
23 graphs (B) through (E) of paragraph (2)’’ and in-
24 serting ‘‘subparagraphs (B) through (F) of para-
25 graph (2)’’; and
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1 (3) by amending paragraph (6) to read as fol-
2 lows:
3 ‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
4 ‘‘(A) NEW SMALL BUSINESS ENTRANT.—
5 The term ‘new small business entrant’ means a
6 small business concern that—
7 ‘‘(i) has been awarded a prime con-
8 tract by a Federal agency; and
9 ‘‘(ii) has not previously been awarded
10 a prime contract by any Federal agency.
11 ‘‘(B) SCORECARD.—The term ‘scorecard’
12 means any summary using a rating system to
13 evaluate the efforts of a Federal agency to meet
14 goals established under subsection (g)(1)(B)
15 that—
16 ‘‘(i) includes the measures described
17 in paragraph (2); and
18 ‘‘(ii) assigns a score to each Federal
19 agency evaluated.’’.
20 SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH CUTGO.
21 No additional amounts are authorized to be appro-
22 priated to carry out this Act or the amendments made
23 by this Act.
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