S. 1078: Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
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S. 1078: Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
112th Congress · introduced 2011-05-25 · Commerce · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-05-25 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
Plain summary
Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011 - Extends through July 31, 2011, under the same terms and conditions, the authorization for any program, authority, or provision, including any pilot program, that is currently authorized through May 31, 2011, under the Small Business Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Amends the Small Business Act (the Act) to reauthorize through FY2011 the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs of the Small Business Administration (SBA), as well as the SBA's commercialization pilot program. Requires all SBIR or STTR funds to be awarded pursuant to competitive and merit-based selection procedures.
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Official text
Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] · 0 cosponsors
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- Authorization
- A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s1078.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s1078 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112