Summary of Policies
Revision as of 15:20, 20 November 2015 by imported>Meghana
There have been 7,430 bills proposed by the 114th Congress in 2015 thus far; out of these 7,430 bills, 100 are related to entrepreneurship or contain the word "entrepreneurship," making the percentage of entrepreneurship-related bills out of all proposed bills only 1.35%.
Out of the 100 entrepreneurship-related bills proposed by the 114th Congress, there were:
- 9 bills on veterans
- 34 bills on small business (with some overlap into other categories; 20 bills on small business alone)
- 1 bill on women
- 4 bills on tax relief
- 5 bills on disaster recovery
- 2 bills on establishing visas for alien entrepreneurs
- 1 bill on international cooperation and partnership in entrepreneurship
- 3 bills on "National Entrepreneurship Day/Week"
- 5 bills on exports
- 4 bills on startups/innovation
- 2 bills on patents
- 7 bills directed at specific industries, such as energy, telecommunications, and engineering
- 26 bills irrelevant to entrepreneurship
Among these 100 bills:
- 26 were reported by Committee
- 3 passed the House
- 2 had changes agreed on by the House
- 68 were Introduced or not relevant
- 11 were resolutions
- 1 was enacted (the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015)