Small Business Development Center Act of 1979

Summary

Small Business Development Center Act of 1979 - Amends the Small Business Act to implement a pilot program to establish small business development centers in order to provide management, technical, and technological assistance to small businesses. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, States, regional entities, State-chartered development credit or finance corporations, and any public or private institution of higher education to assist them in developing centers to provide small businesses with a broad range of advice, information, and assistance. Requires grant applicants to obtain matching funds on a 50-50 basis from non-Federal sources. Entitles such applicants to an amount of funds for programs in fiscal years 1980 through 1982 based on the percent of the population proposed to be served as compared to total population in the United States. Requires applicants to assist small businesses to solve their business problems in such areas as: operations, manufacturing, engineering, technology exchange and development, personnel administration, marketing, merchandising, finance, accounting, and business strategy development. Stipulates that a center must employ on a full time basis a director, business analysts, technology transfer agents, and information specialists. Requires that the services provided by a center should include, but not be limited to, counseling on a one-to-one basis and solutions for complying with environmental, energy, health, safety, and other Federal, State, and local regulations. Directs the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to cooperate with small business development centers participating in the program and to report annually to the Small Business Administration and the Congress and to make recommendations to the Small Business Administration on continued funding. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to appoint a Deputy Associate Administrator for Management Assistance to administer the small business development center program. Establishes a National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board composed of nine members appointed by the Administrator to advise and confer with the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management Assistance. Directs the Administration, with the advice of the Board, to establish an evaluation plan of the center program and to submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress within three years. Prohibits the Administration from funding any small business development center program except as authorized by this Act.

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• House agreed to Senate amendment with amendment

  summary · EN · 6 February 1980

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• Senate receded and concurred with amendment

  summary · EN · 24 January 1980

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 13 December 1979

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 22 May 1979

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 16 May 1979

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 8 May 1979

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 9 April 1979

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