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S. 609 · 118th Congress · Commerce

NEW START Act of 2023

Died in committee1.6k words Introduced Mar 1, 2023 · Latest action Mar 1, 2023

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  1. IntroducedMar 1, 2023 Done
  2. CommitteeDied Jan 3, 2025 Stopped here
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What it does

This bill 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 may include 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.

Congressional Research Service · summary of “Introduced in Senate” version · Mar 1, 2023

Who lobbies on it

No lobbying filing on file names S. 609.

Organizations that named S. 609 in a quarterly lobbying report. Covers organizations with a PAC on file; reports from organizations without one aren’t loaded yet. Spend is the organization’s total across all issues: reports don’t split spending by bill. Source: Senate lobbying disclosures (LD-2) from lda.gov; quotes are word for word from the “specific lobbying issues” field.

Actions

2 actions · newest first
  1. Mar 1, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  2. Mar 1, 2023Introduced in Senate