Small Business Size Standards: A Historical Analysis of Contemporary Issues

Dilger, Robert Jay

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Small business;    Legislation;   

RP-ID  :  R40860
RP-ID  :  R40860_2017Sep28

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report provides a historical examination of the SBA's size standards and assesses competing views concerning how to define a small business. It also discusses P.L. 112-239, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, which requires the SBA to make available a justification when establishing or approving a size standard that the size standard is appropriate for each individual industry classification. It addresses the SBA's recent practice of combining size standards within industrial groups as a means to reduce the complexity of its size standards and to provide greater consistency for industrial classifications that have similar economic characteristics; P.L. 114-328, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which authorizes the SBA to establish different size standards for agricultural enterprises using existing methods and appeal processes.