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H.R. 255: Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

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H.R. 255: Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-01-04 · Science, Technology, Communications · Latest: Signed by President.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-01-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Signed by President. (final step reached)
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.) Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.

Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5] · 44 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 255, Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (2017-01-31)

Cosponsors on this site

Paul Tonko (D-NY), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Bill Foster (D-IL), Mark Takano (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Jim Costa (D-CA)

No linked floor roll calls in our collected records yet. This does not mean the bill has never had a vote. Check the official bill history.

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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.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr255 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115