[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1410 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1410

To amend the Small Business Act to require the implementation of a data 
           quality improvement plan, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2015

Mrs. Radewagen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to require the implementation of a data 
           quality improvement plan, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN.

    (a) In General.--Section 15(s) of the Small Business Act (15. 
U.S.C. 644(s)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (6); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
        paragraphs:
            ``(4) Implementation.--Not later than the first day of 
        fiscal year 2017, the Administrator of the Small Business 
        Administration shall implement the plan described in this 
        subsection. If the Administrator fails to implement the plan by 
        such date, the Administrator may not exercise the authority 
        under section 7(a)(25)(A) until the plan is implemented.
            ``(5) Certification.--The Administrator shall annually 
        provide to the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
        Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and 
        Entrepreneurship of the Senate certification of the accuracy 
        and completeness of data reported on bundled and consolidated 
        contracts.''.
    (b) GAO Study.--
            (1) Study.--Not later than the first day of fiscal year 
        2018, the Comptroller General of the United States shall 
        initiate a study on the effectiveness of the plan described in 
        section 15(s) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(s)) that 
        shall assess whether contracts were accurately labeled as 
        bundled or consolidated.
            (2) Contracts evaluated.--For the purposes of conducting 
        the study described in paragraph (1), the Comptroller General 
        of the United States--
                    (A) shall evaluate, for work in each of sectors 23, 
                33, 54, and 56 (as defined by the North American 
                Industry Classification System), not fewer than 100 
                contracts in each sector;
                    (B) shall evaluate only those contracts--
                            (i) awarded by an agency listed in section 
                        901(b) of title 31, United States Code; and
                            (ii) that have a Base and Exercised Options 
                        Value, an Action Obligation, or a Base and All 
                        Options Value (as such terms are defined in the 
                        Federal procurement data system described in 41 
                        U.S.C. 1222(a)(4)(A), or any successor system); 
                        and
                    (C) shall not evaluate contracts that have used any 
                set aside authority.
            (3) Report.--Not later than 12 months after initiating the 
        study required by subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General of 
        the United States shall report to the Committee on Small 
        Business of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
        Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate on the 
        results from such study and, if warranted, any recommendations 
        on how to improve the quality of data reported on bundled and 
        consolidated contracts.
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