US Congress House Bill 924 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 3 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Pending: House Small Business Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Jobs for Veterans Act of 2011 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish within the SBA a Veterans Business Center program (program), headed by a Director, to provide entrepreneurial training and counseling to veterans. Authorizes the Director to make grants to each entity designated as a veterans business center. Requires each center to use such funds on veteran entrepreneurial development, counseling of veteran-owned small businesses through one-on-one instruction and classes, and providing government procurement assistance to veterans. Targets populations where veterans and veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom. Enduring Freedom, or New Dawn exceed the national median. Requires the Director to establish, with respect to veteran-owned small businesses, grant programs for: (1) access to capital; (2) procurement assistance; and (3) service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Authorizes the Director to carry out, every two years, a veterans entrepreneurial development summit. Requires: (1) an annual report from the Administrator on appointments made to, and activities of, the interagency task force on veteran-owned small businesses; and (2) a study by the Comptroller General of the effects of this Act on small businesses owned and controlled by veterans.

Jobs for Veterans Act of 2011

Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-03	House	Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/924/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr924/BILLS-112hr924ih.pdf