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===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.

===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

===hr4170===

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

===s1538===

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.

===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.

===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.

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

===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.

(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

===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.

Summary: Streamlines acquisition laws for US Federal government. Focuses on NASA, Coast Guard, DoD, Military forces.

===hr2281===

title I: WIPO Treaties Implementation

===hr1568===

Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999 - Title I: General Provisions - Amends the Small Business Act (the Act) to revise or add definitions.

Summary: DoD Appropriation Bill.

===hr1===

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.

Summary: Agricultural subsidies appropriation bill.

===hr1===

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA) is a federal law of the United States, enacted in 2003. It produced the largest overhaul of Medicare in the public health program's 38-year history.

Summary: Appropriations for subsidies, financing, and trade (mostly in the agricultural sector).

===hr3===

To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.

===hr2272===

To invest in innovation through research and development, and to improve the competitiveness of the United States.

Summary: Energy use reduction and efficiency improvements

===hr146===

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009: Designates specified federal lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, as wilderness and as either a new component, or an addition to an existing component, of the National Wilderness Preservation Systems.

===hr5297===

Small Business Jobs Act of 2010: Amends the Small Business Act to increase temporarily (until January 1, 2011) to 90% the maximum Small Business Administration (SBA) participation in a loan on a deferred basis under the section 7(a) (general small business loans) guaranteed loan program. Reduces SBA participation in a loan on a deferred basis, after December 31, 2010, from 90% back to: (1) 75% of a loan balance exceeding $150,000; and (2) 85% of a loan balance equal to or less than $150,000.

===hr1249===

The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and closely resembles previously proposed legislation in the Senate in its previous session (Patent Reform Act of 2009). The Act switches the U.S. patent system from a "first to invent" to a "first inventor to file" system, eliminates interference proceedings, and develops post-grant opposition. Its central provisions went into effect on September 16, 2012 and on March 16, 2013.

===hr4348===

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act or MAP-21 Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) equal to FY2012 federal highway spending levels plus inflation for FY2013 and FY2014. It requires the expenditure of 10% of amounts made available for federal-aid highways and public transportation programs on small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and requires states to compile annual lists of small disadvantaged business enterprises according to minimum uniform criteria established by the Secretary of Transportation (DOT).

===hr3304===

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for procurement for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide activities, in amounts specified in the funding table set forth in Division D of this Act.

===hr83===

The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 provides appropriations for most of the federal government through the end of FY2015 and continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security through February 27, 2015. The Act includes eleven of the twelve regular appropriations bills. Compared to FY2014 levels, the Act increases total funding for seven bills and decreases funding for four bills.

===hr2029===

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 provides FY2016 appropriations; extends expiring tax provisions; and affects policies in areas including oil exports, intelligence, cybersecurity, health care, financial services, visa waivers, and conservation.The bill provides appropriations for the federal government through the end of FY2016. The twelve regular appropriations bills included in the divisions of the bill increase discretionary spending above FY2015 levels, which reflects the increased discretionary spending limits included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.