Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act
Latest action · Jun 11, 2009 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 8, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act relating to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to organizations to: (1) conduct outreach efforts to increase participation in such programs; and (2) provide application, entrepreneurial, and business skills support to prospective program participants. Requires organizations receiving such funds to direct activities toward small businesses: (1) located in areas that are underrepresented in SBIR and STTR programs; or (2) owned and controlled by women, service-disabled veterans, and minorities. Directs the Administrator to establish an advisory board to carry out authorized activities. Provides a two-year period for each grant award.
Requires federal agencies, in making SBIR and STTR grant awards, to prioritize applications so as to increase the number of recipients from rural areas.
Directs each federal agency conducting an SBIR program to: (1) receive consent to identify the small business applicant to appropriate local and state economic development organizations; and (2) encourage partnerships between SBIR awardees and prime contractors, venture capital investment companies, business incubators, and larger businesses for the purpose of facilitating the progress of SBIR awardees to the third phase of the program.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Jun 8, 2009 |
| Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee | Referred Jun 8, 2009Markup Jun 11, 2009Reported Jun 11, 2009 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jun 8, 2009 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 11, 2009Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 11, 2009Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- Jun 8, 2009Introduced in House
- Jun 8, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology .
- Jun 8, 2009Referred to House Small Business
- Jun 8, 2009Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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.
- Jun 8, 2009Referred to House Science and Technology
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111-29 | SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONTRACTING AND TECHNOLOGY MARKUP ON LEGISLATIONS TO MODERNIZE THE SBIR AND STTR PROGRAMS54 pages | Small Business Committee | Jun 11, 2009 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Small Business Act to improve outreach and support activities and to increase award recipients from rural areas with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Business investment and capital
- Commerce
- Disability and paralysis
- Minority and disadvantaged businesses
- Product development and innovation
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Rural conditions and development
- Small business
- Technology transfer and commercialization
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Women in business
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 8, 2009Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
