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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Mar 19, 2018
Small Business Employee Ownership Promotion Enhancement Act of 2018
This bill amends the Small Business Act to require the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) to appoint a SCORE Employee Ownership Director, whose duties shall relate to the various forms of employee ownership.
The director shall be responsible for:
administering and disbursing materials that contain general information and technical assistance for the establishment of employee ownership structures;
coordinating efforts for employee ownership with SCORE chapters located throughout the United States;
providing technical assistance relating to a range of business forms and strategies that promote or facilitate employee ownership, including an employee stock ownership plan, a cooperative, and any other approach determined appropriate by the director; and
providing the Small Business Administration and the Office of Entrepreneurial Development with statistics, including regional statistics from a SCORE chapter relating to services provided to small businesses potentially undertaking a form of employee ownership.
The director may be a SCORE employee on the date of appointment.
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Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] · D–MI
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By Senator Risch from Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship filed written report. Report No. 115-436.
By Senator Risch from Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship filed written report. Report No. 115-436.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 348.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Introduced in Senate
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