110th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. R. 383

To amend the Small Business Act to revise the definition of a HUBZone with respect to counties that are highly rural but adjacent to urban areas.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 10, 2007

Mr. GOODE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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A BILL

To amend the Small Business Act to revise the definition of a HUBZone with respect to counties that are highly rural but adjacent to urban areas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `HUBZone Improvement Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF HUBZONE QUALIFIED AREA.

Section 3(p)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

`(C) Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the term `qualified nonmetropolitan county' also includes a county located within a metropolitan statistical area if--

`(i) according to the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce--

`(I) the total population of that county is 80,000 or less; and

`(II) the population residing within urbanized areas of that county is 10 percent or less of the total population of the county; and

`(ii) the county meets either the median household income requirement of subparagraph (B)(ii)(I) or the unemployment rate requirement of subparagraph (B)(ii)(II).'.

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