US Congress Senate Bill 1077 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on April 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-04-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Pending: Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes a pilot program for providing entrepreneurial development assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals. Specifically, the bill requires the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot program whereby it awards grants to organizations or partnerships that create or support entrepreneurship programs for providing assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals. Such assistance shall be in the form of entrepreneurial development programming that includes the disbursement of microloans. The Government Accountability Office must submit a report evaluating the (1) services that grant recipients provide to formerly incarcerated individuals, (2) oversight of the pilot program by the SBA, and (3) overall performance and impacts of the pilot program.

NEW START Act of 2019 Necessary Entrepreneurship Workshops via the SBA to Transform and Assist Re-entry Training Act of 2019

Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]

Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-09	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1077/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1077/BILLS-116s1077is.pdf