HR 3987 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Small Business Protection Act of 2012

Introduced Feb 8, 2012 Originated House Sponsor Joe Walsh R-IL

Latest action · Dec 21, 2012 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 527.

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.

IntroducedFeb 8, 2012
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Small Business Protection Act of 2012 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), when establishing small business size standards, to establish or approve a single standard for a grouping of four-digit North American Industrial Classification codes only if the Administrator makes publicly available, no later than the date on which it is established or approved, a justification that such standard is appropriate for each individual industry classification in the grouping.

Requires the Administrator, in conducting rulemaking to revise, modify, or establish size standards, to consider and address: (1) the industry for which the new standard is proposed, (2) the competitive environment for that industry, (3) the approach used to develop the proposed standard, and (4) the anticipated effect of the proposed rulemaking on the industry.

Cosponsors 11

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 8, 2012 to Jun 19, 2012; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Feb 8, 2012
R-FL	Allen B. West		Mar 6, 2012
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Mar 6, 2012
R-IL	Robert T. Schilling		Mar 6, 2012
R-MO	Sam Graves		Mar 6, 2012
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Mar 6, 2012
R-SC	Mick Mulvaney		Mar 13, 2012
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Mar 13, 2012
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Mar 26, 2012
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers		Apr 27, 2012
R-NC	Howard Coble		Jun 19, 2012

Committees 1

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 Feb 8, 2012Markup Mar 21, 2012Reported Dec 21, 2012

Actions 6

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 21, 2012Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 112-724.
Dec 21, 2012Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 527.
Mar 21, 2012Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Mar 21, 2012Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Feb 8, 2012Introduced in House
Feb 8, 2012Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

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.

Committee report

H. Rept. 112-724

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

May 8, 2012H.R. 3987, Small Business Protection Act of 2012As ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on March 22, 2012

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution, which provides Congress with the ability to enact legislation necessary and proper to effectuate its purposes in taxing and spending.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H641.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
H.A.S.C. No. 112-129	TESTIMONY FROM MEMBERS ON THEIR NATIONAL DEFENSE PRIORITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2013 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL154 pages	Armed Services Committee	Apr 17, 2012
Serial No. 112-060	MARKUP OF H.R. 3985, H.R. 3987, H.R. 4081, H.R. 4203, AND H.R. 4206110 pages	Small Business Committee	Mar 22, 2012

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R40860	Small Business Size Standards: A Historical Analysis of Contemporary Issues	Report	Jun 15, 2022

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Small Business Act with respect to small business concern size standards, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Small Business Protection Act of 2012

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 21, 2012Reported in House
Feb 8, 2012Introduced in House

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