US Congress House Bill 2809 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27)
Status: Introduced on September 6 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-10-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Microenterprise and Youth Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2011 - Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 for purposes of the microenterprise technical assistance and capacity building grant program to include in the definition of "disadvantaged entrepreneur" a microentrepreneur operating or intending to operate a business in an investment area. Increases to 60% (currently, 50%) the minimum percentage of such grants required to be used to benefit very low-income persons, including those residing on Indian reservations. Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to consider the impact of the 2007-2009 economic crisis on an applicant's geographic area when deciding whether to reduce or eliminate matching requirements for applicants with severe constraints on available funding sources. Directs the Administrator to establish an SBA Microenterprise Coordinator position. Requires the Administrator to establish an Office of Youth Entrepreneurship and appoint a Director to carry out: (1) the youth entrepreneur technical assistance grant program to make grants to assist entities, including nonprofit microenterprise development organizations, to provide individuals under 25 years of age with technical assistance related to entrepreneurship; and (2) the youth entrepreneurship curriculum grant program to make grants to applying local educational agencies of states and federally recognized Indian tribes.

Microenterprise and Youth Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2011

Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Shelley Berkley [D-NV]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Hansen Clarke [D-MI]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]
Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Janice Hahn [D-CA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-10-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Small Business
2011-09-06	House	Referred to House Financial Services
2011-09-06	House	Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/2809/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr2809/BILLS-112hr2809ih.pdf