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WOSB Accountability Act

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-03
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3
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Nydia M. Velázquez
Nydia M. Velázquez
Democrat · NY · Representative
Votes with party: 96.9% (585 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (3)

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

2025-06-04

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Plain-English Summary

WOSB Accountability Act This bill requires that only women-owned small businesses that have been certified by a federal agency, state government, or national certifying entity approved by the Small Business Administration (SBA) are included when calculating whether a federal agency has met its contracting goals with respect to such businesses during a fiscal year. Certain self-certified, women-owned small businesses that have filed an application for certification are deemed to have been certified until the SBA or national certifying entity makes a determination with respect to the certification of such business. The SBA must provide a briefing each quarter about specified aspects of the process of certifying women-owned small businesses and implementing the requirements of the bill.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Commerce
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