Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988

Summary

Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 - Title I: Congressional Findings and Purposes - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to small businesses owned and controlled by women. Title II: Demonstration Projects - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide financial assistance to private organizations to conduct demonstration projects giving financial, management, and marketing assistance to small businesses, including start-up businesses, owned and controlled by women. Describes application criteria. Requires the SBA to report to the congressional Small Business Committees on the projects. Terminates authority for this pilot program on October 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Procurement Assistance - Amends the Small Business Act to include small business concerns owned and operated by women as a discrete group for purposes of Government contracts and subcontracts and procurement programs. (Current law governing these programs refers expressly only to small business concerns and small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as groups targeted for assistance.) Instructs the Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of each Federal agency to designate a Women-in-Business Specialist to be responsible for programs designed to assist concerns owned and controlled by women. Directs Federal agencies, in their procurement activities, to engage in affirmative action to identify and solicit offers from small businesses owned and controlled by either women or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Title IV: Access to Capital - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prohibit the Federal Reserve Board, except under limited circumstances, from exempting from such Act's provisions any class of transactions that are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, or business or commercial loans made available by a financial institution. Limits to five years any exemption authorized under the circumstances specified in this Act, unless a subsequent determination is made that the exemption remains appropriate. Requires lenders to keep records relating to loans and to provide written notice to applicants of their right to receive notice of reasons for a loan denial. Authorizes the SBA to establish a certified loan program for lenders that display knowledge and proficiency with respect to SBA regulations and programs. Directs the SBA to encourage small business loans of $50,000 or less under both this new program and the preferred lenders program in FY 1989 through 1991 by permitting participating lenders to: (1) use their own forms without regard to SBA paperwork; and (2) retain one-half of the loan guarantee fee. Requires SBA reporting to specified congressional committees in connection with the certified loan program. Directs the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Department of Commerce, and the SBA jointly to study levels of availability of and demand for debt and equity capital by small businesses, as well as innovative financing techniques to meet any unmet demand. Requires reporting to the congressional Small Business Committees. Title V: National Women's Business Council - Establishes the National Women's Business Council to review the status of women-owned businesses nationwide and to develop detailed multiyear plans in connection with both private and public sector actions to assist and promote such businesses. Requires annual reporting to both the President and the Congress. Title VI: Statistical Data and Effect on Other Programs - Directs: (1) the Bureau of Labor Statistics to include in its census reports on women-owned businesses specified information on sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; (2) the Bureau of the Census to include in its Business Census data the number of corporations that are 51 percent or more owned by women; (3) the SBA's Office of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy to report on the most cost-effective and accurate ways to gather and present the statistics required in these census reports; and (4) Federal agencies to report to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy the number of first-time contract recipients that are small businesses owned and controlled either by women or by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Requires the President's annual Report on Small Business and Competition to include in separate detail information relevant to small businesses owned and controlled either by women or by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

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Timeline

1. 14 July 1988

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 14 July 1988

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Small Business.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 14 July 1988

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 10 August 1988

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported.

   Source: Committee

5. 10 August 1988

   Committee

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

6. 22 September 1988

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Small Business. Report No: 100-955.

   Source: Committee

7. 22 September 1988

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Small Business. Report No: 100-955.

   Source: Committee

8. 22 September 1988

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 571.

   Source: Calendars

9. 3 October 1988

   Vote

   Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 389 - 7 (Record Vote No: 385).

   Source: Floor

10. 3 October 1988

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 389 - 7 (Record Vote No: 385).

    Source: Floor

11. 3 October 1988

    Floor

    Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.

    Source: Floor

12. 5 October 1988

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate, read twice.

    Source: IntroReferral

13. 11 October 1988

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

14. 11 October 1988

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

15. 12 October 1988

    Passed

    House Agreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

16. 12 October 1988

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Agreed to Senate Amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

17. 12 October 1988

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

18. 20 October 1988

    Floor

    Measure Signed in Senate.

    Source: Floor

19. 21 October 1988

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

20. 21 October 1988

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

21. 25 October 1988

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 100-533.

    Source: President

22. 25 October 1988

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

23. 25 October 1988

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

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Documents

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 26 October 1988

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• Passed Senate amended

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