Changes

==96 (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981)==

===hr39===

A bill to provide for the designation and conservation of certain public lands in the State of Alaska, including the designation of units of the National Park, National Wildlife Refuge, National Forest, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National Wilderness Preservation Systems, and for other purposes.

===s2698===

Amends the Small Business Act to authorize Small Business Administration (SBA) loan program levels, including salaries and expenses, for fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal year 1985 and thereafter for general SBA programs which do not require specific authorizations.

==97 (January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983)==

===hr6260===

This act authorizes appropriations to the Patent and Trademark office in 1982. $76 million dollars available for fiscal year 1983 and in years 84 and 85 such sums may also be provided along with supplemental amounts

==98 (January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985)==

===hr4170===

The deficit reduction act attempts to reduce the federal deficit and provide tax freezes, reforms and certain tax reductions.

The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Public Law 98-417), informally known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, is a 1984 United States federal law which encourages the manufacture of generic drugs by the pharmaceutical industry and established the modern system of government generic drug regulation in the United States. Representative Henry Waxman of California and Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah sponsored the act.

==99 (January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987)==

===hr3838===

Tax Reform Act of 1986

The tax reform act involves revising income tax rates for individuals, estates and trusts. There are general accounting provisions for small businesses.

==100 (January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1989)==

===hr1807===

Title I: Congressional Findings and Purposes - Sets forth congressional findings with respect to the Capital Ownership Development Program (Program) administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the ways in which this Act proposes to improve it.

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize abbreviated new animal drug applications and to amend title 35, United States Code, to authorize the extension of the patents for animal drug products.

Summary: Extend patents rights for animal drug products.

==101 (January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1991)==

===hr4739===

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program.

Summary: SBA appropriation bill. Focus on rural areas and its small business owners.

===s1630===

Summary: Prices and quantity support for agricultural and consumer products.

==102 (January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1993)==

===hr4111===

Small Business Credit and Business Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992 - Title I: Improved Access to Credit - Subtitle A: Section 7(A) Guaranteed Loan Program - Small Business Credit Crunch Relief Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Act to limit the amount of deferred participation loans authorized by such Act to the net amount of loan principal which is guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) (not including any amount which is not guaranteed). Declares that such loans are available for a national program, but restricts to ten percent of annual authorizations SBA use of such funds for special or pilot programs directed to identified sectors of the small business community or to specific geographic regions.

Summary: Energy efficiency regulations for state-level agencies.

===s2941===

(4) to improve the Federal Government’s dissemination of information concerning the small business innovation research program, particularly with regard to program participation by women-owned small business concerns and by socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns.

Summary: SBIR program implementation through the SBA

==103 (January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995)==

===hr2264===

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend specified upland cotton loan, payment, acreage reduction, and marketing loan programs.