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HOUSE 255115th CongressBecame Public Law No: 115-6.

Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

Last Action
2/28/2017

Actions

  • 2017-02-28Became Public Law No: 115-6.
  • 2017-02-28Became Public Law No: 115-6.
  • 2017-02-28Signed by President.
  • 2017-02-28Signed by President.
  • 2017-02-16Presented to President.
  • 2017-02-16Presented to President.
  • 2017-02-15Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  • 2017-02-14Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1163)
  • 2017-02-14Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1163)
  • 2017-02-01Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 5.
  • 2017-02-01Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune without amendment. Without written report.
  • 2017-02-01Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune without amendment. Without written report.
  • 2017-01-24Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
  • 2017-01-11Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
  • 2017-01-10Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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CRS Summary

As of 2017-02-28 (49)

(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.

Cosponsors (20)

  • Barbara Comstock (R-VA)
  • EDDIE JOHNSON (D-TX)
  • LAMAR SMITH (R-TX)
  • Paul Tonko (D-NY)
  • Stephen Knight (R-CA)
  • Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
  • Mike Coffman (R-CO)
  • Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)
  • Bill Foster (D-IL)
  • Mark Takano (D-CA)
  • William Keating (D-MA)
  • Daniel Lipinski (D-IL)
  • ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
  • Donald Payne (D-NJ)
  • Steve Cohen (D-TN)
  • David Scott (D-GA)
  • Dwight Evans (D-PA)
  • TIM RYAN (D-OH)
  • SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)
  • ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL)

Subjects

  • Science and engineering education
  • Small business
  • Technology transfer and commercialization
  • Women in business
  • Women's education

Became law: Pub. L. 115-6

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