Recently Supported Legislation

• H.R. 5450 - Enhancing Competition in Contracting Orders Act: Clarifies that the HUBZone price evaluation preference applies to task orders. Michelle Burnett, the Executive Director of the Council, is quoted in Congresswoman Scholten's press release.

• H.R. 5454 -  Fairness in Shaping Small Business Contracting Policies Act of 2023: Adds the Administrator of the SBA to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council and requires the SBA to submit a report to Congress with recommendations on reducing lag time between SBA and FAR Council rulemaking. 

• S. 2720 - Accountability and Clarity in Contracts to Engage Small Suppliers and Small Businesses Act: A package of small business contracting changes, including legislation aimed at placing limits on federal agency credit for meeting small business contracting goals. The bill limits the “double-counting” exercise by limiting an agency’s ability to count the total contract award value two times only. More information on this legislation in a section-by-section here.

• H.R. 4671 - Corrective Action Report Oversight and Accountability Act: Strengthens corrective actions taken by agencies when they fail to meet their small business goals. Federal agencies have annual goals for awarding contracts to small businesses, reported on the SBA’s annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard. The bill requires federal agencies that fail to meet an annual small business contracting goal to submit a “corrective action report” to the SBA outlining the reasons why it did not meet the goal and proposing a “corrective action plan.” This bill standardizes the information required in these reports and requires agencies to provide an analysis of the efficacy of previously proposed practices.

• H.R. 4670 - Small Business Contracting Transparency Act of 2023: Requires the SBA to report the number and total dollar amount of contracts awarded under the WOSB/EDWOSB, HUBZone, and SDVOSB contracting programs to Congress. The legislation is an expanded version of the WOSB Program Transparency Act which passed the House last Congress.
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• H.R. 5879 - HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference Clarification Act of 2021: Will clarify that the HUBZone price evaluation preference applies to task orders. Passed by the House on June 8, 2022.

• H.R. 7694 - Strengthening Subcontracting for Small Businesses Act of 2022: Expands the importance of subcontracting plan performance in agency evaluation of offerors and makes subcontracting plan performance a more important factor in winning future work. Passed by the House on June 8, 2022.

• S. 583 - PRICE Act: Encourages interagency collaboration to utilize small business contractors. Council Executive Director Michelle Burnett quoted in Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee press release. Signed into law on February 22, 2022

• H.R. 3845 - Parity for HUBZone Appeals Act of 2021: Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue a rule authorizing the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) to decide appeals relating to the status of HUBZone business concerns.

• S. 2042 - Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise Act of 2021: Reauthorizes the Interagency Committee for Women’s Business Enterprise (ICWBE) to help coordinate federal resources to encourage the formation, growth and success of women-owned businesses. Supported by the HUBZone Council. Passed by the House Small Business Committee on February 17, 2022.

• H.R. 3239: To update Title 41 of the U.S. Code, which governs federal contracting and procurement, to reflect changes to the law since it was originally codified in 2011 and to make other clarifying and technical changes.

• H.R. 3065 - Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2021: Amends the Small Business Act to modify the contracting authority for sole source contracts for small business concerns, including HUBZone small businesses.