Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
Latest action · Jan 9, 2020 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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.
- IntroducedNov 18, 2019
- Passed HouseJan 8, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
This bill requires the past performance of a small business concern to be taken into account in certain situations.
Specifically, when a small business previously participated in a joint venture, an agency's contracting officer must consider the past performance of the joint venture when evaluating the small business's offer for a prime contract. In addition, a small business that performed as a first-tier subcontractor for an agency contract may request that the prime contractor submit to a contracting agency a record of past performance, and the agency's contracting officer must consider such record when evaluating an offer by the small business for a prime contract.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 18, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | Nov 18, 2019 |
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 Nov 18, 2019Markup Nov 20, 2019Reported Dec 19, 2019 |
| Senate | Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee | Referred Jan 9, 2020 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2020Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- Jan 8, 2020Ms. Velazquez moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jan 8, 2020Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H39-41)
- Jan 8, 2020DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5146.
- Jan 8, 2020Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H39)
- Jan 8, 2020Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Dec 19, 2019Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 116-361.
- Dec 19, 2019Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 286.
- Nov 20, 2019Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Nov 20, 2019Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Nov 18, 2019Introduced in House
- Nov 18, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H39–H41Text printed H39Notices H61Estimated budget effects of H.R. 5146, Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act | Dwight Evans D-PA, Jim Hagedorn R-MN, John A. Yarmuth D-KY, John Joyce R-PA, Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY, Steve Chabot R-OH | Jan 8, 2020 |
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
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Feb 18, 2020H.R. 5146, Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019As passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 184, November 18, 2019, page H8959.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 116-62 | MARKUP OF: H.R. 5078, PRISON TO PROPRIETORSHIP ACT; H.R. 5065, PRISON TO PROPRIETORSHIP FOR FORMERLY INCARCERATED ACT; H.R. 5130, CAPTURING ALL SMALL BUSINESSES ACT OF 2019; H.R. 5146, UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES ACT OF 201937 pages | Small Business Committee | Nov 20, 2019 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Small Business Act to require contracting officers to take a small business concern's past performance as part of a joint venture into account when evaluating the small business concern, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Unlocking Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2020Referred in Senate
- Jan 8, 2020Engrossed in House
- Dec 19, 2019Reported in House
- Nov 18, 2019Introduced 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.
