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US Policy Towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation (view source)
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*S. 1001: The Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition Act of 2015
** Amends the Small Business Act to direct the [[Small Business Administration]] (federal agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses) , or SBA, to carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of making grants to eligible veterans to start or acquire a qualifying business enterprise
* S. 2116: Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act of 2015
**Improves certain programs of the Small Business Administration to better assist small business customers in accessing broadband technology
**Effective: on and after enactment of this Act, and during any fiscal year in which the federal government's cost in making loan guarantees under such program is zero.
**Repeals a provision of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 that terminated such authority as of September 27, 2012.
*S. 1470: Recovery Improvements for Small Entities After Disaster Act of 2015
**Amends the Small Business Act to provide additional assistance to small business concerns for disaster recovery, and for other purposes.
*S. 1292: HUBZone Revitalization Act of 2015
** Amends the Small Business Act to redefine treat certain qualified disaster areas as HUBZones and to extend the period for HUBZone treatment for certain base closure areas, and for other purposes.*S.999: Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2015**Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the authority of the Small Business Administration to use certain SBA programs, including the small business development center (historically underutilized business ZonesSBDC) eligible for certain program, to provide grants, financial assistance, loans, export assistance , and subcontracting opportunities on federal contracts to include a qualified disaster area (a specified census tract or nonmetropolitan county located in a major declared disaster area or in an area where a catastrophic incident has occurred)small businesses, organizations, state governments, universities, companies, and other entities that assist smaller enterprises.**A qualified disaster area Declares that the SBA shall be treated as a HUBZone only use such programs to deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, support for 5 years after it has been declared a major disaster area the development and maintenance of clusters, or for 10 years after a catastrophic incident has occurred within itbusiness training.*S.1758: Small Business Energy Efficiency Act of 2015**[[The Federal Emergency Management Agency]] shall provide Amends the Small Business Administration with any data it needs Investment Act of 1958 to verify allow a state development company to use the economic development objective of helping small businesses achieve savings through energy efficiency to qualify for loan assistance.*S.Res. 252: An original resolution expressing the sense of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate relating to easing the burden of Federal tax compliance on small businesses**Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the taxation of small businessentities.*Women’s Small Business Ownership Act of 2015**Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration Office of Women's eligibility Business Ownership to address issues concerning specified disciplines required for the HUBZone starting, operating, and increasing a small business loan program.