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===hr1807===
'''Summary''': Improve SBA operations through reporting and administrative appointments. Capital Ownership Development Program participants must prepare various operations and capabilities.
 
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.
Title II: Program Organization and Participation Standards - Amends Small Business Act provisions governing admission to the Capital Ownership Development Program.
Title V: Contract Planning; Goal Setting and Reviews - Directs the SBA to require each Program participant to prepare an annual statement describing its various contract capabilities. Requires executive agencies that report to the Federal Procurement Data System contract activity with a value exceeding $50,000,000 in any fiscal year, to prepare and submit to the SBA Administrator and to the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization a forecast of anticipated contract opportunities. Lists required forecast contents and requires that they be available to small business concerns.
Summary: Improve SBA operations through reporting and administrative appointments. Capital Ownership Development Program participants must prepare various operations and capabilities.
===hr4848===
'''Summary''': Reform US trade practices as it’s enacted from FTC and the USTR. Set US policy on how to handle trade practices, and how to respond to unfair trade practices.
 
Title I: Trade, Customs, and Tariff Laws - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to U.S. trade.
Subtitle A: United States Trade Agreements - Part 1: Negotiation and Implementation of Trade Agreements - Declares that the overall U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to trade agreements are to obtain: (1) more open and equitable market access; (2) the
Subtitle C: Response to Unfair International Trade Practices - Part I: Enforcement of United States Rights Under Trade Agreements and Response to Certain Foreign Trade Practices - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the USTR, subject to the direction of the President, to take specified action to enforce U.S. trade rights under an agreement or to eliminate unfair trade practices if the USTR determines that: (1) the rights of the United States under any agreement are being denied; or (2) a foreign act, policy, or practice violates or otherwise denies U.S. benefits under any agreement, or burdens or restricts U.S. commerce. Sets forth circumstances under which the USTR is not required to take such action.
Summary: Reform US trade practices as it’s enacted from FTC and the USTR. Set US policy on how to handle trade practices, and how to respond to unfair trade practices.
===s2843===
'''Summary''': Extend patents rights for animal drug products.
 
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.
==101 (January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1991)==
===hr4739===
'''Summary''': NDAA bill: DoD Appropriations authorization.
 
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.
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to use funds appropriated for FY 1991 to enter into multiyear procurement contracts for specified defense programs.
Part C: Other Strategic Programs - Prohibits FY 1991 Air Force procurement funds from being obligated for the SRAM II missile program until the Secretary of Defense makes certain certifications to the Congress concerning the testing of such program.
Summary: NDAA bill: DoD Appropriations authorization.
===hr4793===
'''Summary''': SBA appropriation bill. Focus on rural areas and its small business owners.
 
Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1990 - Title I: Authorization of Small Business Administration Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize appropriations for specified programs through FY 1994.
Authorizes transfers from the disaster loan revolving fund for the administrative expenses of the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act to extend for two years the role of the Government Printing Office in a certain Department of Defense program to expand participation by disadvantaged small business concerns and minority institutions of higher learning in Department of Defense contracting opportunities.
Summary: SBA appropriation bill. Focus on rural areas and its small business owners.
===s1630===
'''Summary''': Innovation for Clean Air Act regulation.
 
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide for attainment and maintenance of health protective national ambient air quality standards, and for other purposes.
Sec. 101. General planning requirements.
Sec. 111. Transportation system impacts on clean air.
Summary: Innovation for Clean Air Act regulation.
===s2830===
'''Summary''': Prices and quantity support for agricultural and consumer products.
 
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the dairy program for 1991 through 1995, including milk price supports.
Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1995.
Title XI: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Acreage Base and Yield System - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth 1991 through 1995 acreage base and yield system provisions.
Summary: Prices and quantity support for agricultural and consumer products.
==102 (January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1993)==
===hr4111===
'''Summary''': SBA amendment for micro-loans and guaranteed loans.
 
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.
Authorizes deferred participation loans and other financings in FY 1992 through 1994, including general business loans, pollution control loan guarantees, and development company loans and debenture guarantees.
Title II: Amendments to the Small Business Act and Related Acts - Subtitle A: Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program - Amends the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program Act of 1988 to extend the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program, the Alternative Program for Clothing and Textiles, and the program to expand small business participation in dredging through September 30, 1996.
Summary: SBA amendment for micro-loans and guaranteed loans.
===hr5006===
'''Summary''': NDAA Bill. DoD Appropriations.
 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for: (1) the defense agencies; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the reserves and National Guard; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use funds authorized under this Act to enter into multiyear procurement contracts for the procurement of satellites under the Defense Support Program.
Subtitle B: Army Programs - Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated for the Army for FY 1991 or 1992 from being used to initiate or implement closure of any portion of the tank industrial base. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to revise the amount authorized under such Act for the remanufacture of M1 tanks to the M1A2 configuration.
Summary: NDAA Bill. DoD Appropriations.
===hr776===
energy '''Summary''': Energy efficiency regulations for state-level agencies. Energy Policy Act of 1992 - Title I: Energy Efficiency - Subtitle A: Buildings - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to set a deadline by which each State must certify to the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) whether its energy efficiency standards with respect to residential and commercial building codes meet or exceed those of the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) Model Energy Code, 1992, and of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, respectively.
Subtitle B: Utilities - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to mandate that: (1) each electric utility employ integrated resource planning; (2) the rates for a State regulated electric utility are such that its outlay for demand side management measures (including energy conservation and energy efficiency resources), are at least as profitable as those for the construction of new generation, transmission, and distribution equipment; (3) the rates charged by any electric utility are such that it is encouraged to make outlays for all cost-effective improvements in energy efficient power generation, transmission and distribution; and (4) such rates and charges are implemented in a manner that assures that utilities are not granted unfair competitive advantages over small businesses engaged in transactions regarding demand side energy management measures.
Subtitle C: Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Standards - Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to support a voluntary national window rating program that will develop energy ratings and labels for windows and window systems. Requires the National Fenestration Rating Council to develop such rating program according to specified procedures. Requires the Secretary to develop specified alternative rating systems if a national voluntary window rating program consistent with this Act has not been developed.
Variety of things for other forms of energy
Summary: Energy efficiency regulations for state-level agencies.
===s2941===
'''Summary''': SBIR program implementation through the SBA
 
A bill to provide the Administrator of the Small Business Administration continued authority to administer the Small Business Innovation Research Program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 101. Short title.
(3) to increase small business participation in Federal research and development; and
(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
==103 (January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995)==
===hr2264===
'''Summary''': Budget balancing act which includes agricultural and energy trade and production regulations.
 
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.
Subtitle B: Rural Electrification - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize refinancing and prepayment of Federal Financing Bank loans guaranteed by the Rural Electrification Administration. Sets forth penalty and loan term provisions.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (or OBRA-93) was a federal law that was enacted by the 103rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. It has also been referred to, unofficially, as the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993. Part XIII, which dealt with taxes and is also called the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 …
Summary: Budget balancing act which includes agricultural and energy trade and production regulations.
===hr2401===

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