[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 818 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 818


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 25, 2025

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
                          and Entrepreneurship

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new 
    small business entrants in the scorecard program, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Procurement and 
Utilization Reform Act of 2025'' or the ``SPUR Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO SCORECARD REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 15(y) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(y)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as 
                subparagraph (F); and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) The number of new small business entrants, 
                including new small business entrants that are small 
                business concerns owned and controlled by service-
                disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small business 
                concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled 
                by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, 
                and small business concerns owned and controlled by 
                women awarded prime contracts in each North American 
                Industry Classification System code during the fiscal 
                year, and a comparison to the number awarded prime 
                contracts during the prior fiscal year, if 
                available.'';
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``subparagraphs (B) 
        through (E) of paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``subparagraphs 
        (B) through (F) of paragraph (2)''; and
            (3) by amending paragraph (6) to read as follows:
            ``(6) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) New small business entrant.--The term `new 
                small business entrant' means a small business concern 
                that--
                            ``(i) has been awarded a prime contract by 
                        a Federal agency; and
                            ``(ii) has not previously been awarded a 
                        prime contract by any Federal agency.
                    ``(B) Scorecard.--The term `scorecard' means any 
                summary using a rating system to evaluate the efforts 
                of a Federal agency to meet goals established under 
                subsection (g)(1)(B) that--
                            ``(i) includes the measures described in 
                        paragraph (2); and
                            ``(ii) assigns a score to each Federal 
                        agency evaluated.''.

SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH CUTGO.

    No additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this Act or the amendments made by this Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 24, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.