Entrepreneurial Development Act of 2009

Summary

Entrepreneurial Development Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act to reauthorize for FY2010-FY2012 the following programs for small businesses administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA): (1) the SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) program; (2) the small business development center (SBDC) program; (3) the drug-free workplace program; and (4) the women's business center program and the National Women's Business Council. Revises or adds provisions concerning the women's business center program with respect to: (1) the Office of Women's Business Ownership; (2) financial assistance; (3) the Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise; and (4) a study of unique business issues facing women's business centers located in certain areas. Native American Small Business Development Act of 2009 - Establishes within the SBA the Office of Native American Affairs to implement programs for the development of business enterprises by Native Americans. Requires: (1) the SBA to provide financial assistance to create Native American business centers; and (2) each business center to conduct Native American business development assistance projects. Requires a study of unique economic issues facing Native American business centers. Authorizes a pilot program of economic development opportunities for Indian tribes. Establishes a veterans' business center program to provide financial assistance to private nonprofit organizations to conduct projects for the benefit of small businesses owned and controlled by veterans. Requires each organization to establish a veterans' business center to provide specific assistance to veterans, service-disabled veterans, and reservists, as well as their spouses. Directs the SBA's Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development to establish a microenterprise training and technical assistance and capacity building services grant program of training and technical assistance to disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Requires the SBA Administrator to make grants to resource partners to provide small businesses with information and educational materials regarding health insurance options, including coverage options within the small group market. Directs the President to convene a National Small Business Summit to examine present conditions and the future of U.S. small businesses. Allows the SBA Administrator to authorize a SBDC to provide assistance to small businesses outside the state of that SBDC if the small business is in an area for which the President has declared a major disaster. Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate SBDC pilot programs established or amended under this Act.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 2 July 2009

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• Reported to Senate (PDF)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 2 July 2009

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 2 July 2009

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 10 June 2009

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 10 June 2009

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