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Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise Act of 2022
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Key facts
Introduced: Jun 14, 2021
Chamber: Senate
Cosponsors: 4
Congress: 117th
Latest action · May 3, 2022
By Senator Cardin from Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship filed written report. Report No. 117-104. Minority views filed.
Summary
Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise Act of 2022
This bill revises the duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise.
These changes include striking a requirement that the committee develop and promote new public sector programs and plans to foster women's business enterprise and, instead, requiring it to monitor the plans, programs, and operations of federal government departments and agencies to identify barriers to new business formation by women entrepreneurs.
Summary by Congressional Research Service.
Timeline
- May 3, 2022By Senator Cardin from Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship filed written report. Report No. 117-104. Minority views filed.
- May 3, 2022By Senator Cardin from Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship filed written report. Report No. 117-104. Minority views filed.
- Feb 17, 2022Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 279.
- Feb 17, 2022Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Cardin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Feb 17, 2022Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Cardin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Feb 15, 2022Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Oct 27, 2021Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 117-240.
- Jun 14, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- Jun 14, 2021Introduced in Senate
Cosponsors
- Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] R-SC
- Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] D-MD
- Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] R-ME
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] D-DE
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