Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-14a/section-631a.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

3.5 KiB
Raw Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 15 U.S.C. § 631a Congressional declaration of small business economic policy us united_states_code code_section 15 COMMERCE AND TRADE 14A AID TO SMALL BUSINESS 631a 15 U.S.C. § 631a current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip /us/usc/t15/s631a data/legal/raw/us/code/title-15/usc15.xml 462c0c73df94682041ff29cb1ee21136a6e13abdc547f4ab98232dfdfff01963 6982338d990ef19d6b52bff6825089bdd6d0ee1233d9382673faf533decd5059 0734f6973c306e142a7652ecea1c1a8f9cf229c7d184fab84d3641570f76c2aa 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

15 U.S.C. § 631a - Congressional declaration of small business economic policy

Text

(a) Foster small business For the purpose of preserving and promoting a competitive free enterprise economic system, Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practical means and to take such actions as are necessary, consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, to implement and coordinate all Federal department, agency, and instrumentality policies, programs, and activities in order to: foster the economic interests of small businesses; insure a competitive economic climate conducive to the development, growth and expansion of small businesses; establish incentives to assure that adequate capital and other resources at competitive prices are available to small businesses; reduce the concentration of economic resources and expand competition; and provide an opportunity for entrepreneurship, inventiveness, and the creation and growth of small businesses.

(b) Capital availability to small business Congress further declares that the Federal Government is committed to a policy of utilizing all reasonable means, consistent with the overall economic policy goals of the Nation and the preservation of the competitive free enterprise system of the Nation, to establish private sector incentives that will help assure that adequate capital at competitive prices is available to small businesses. To fulfill this policy, departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government shall use all reasonable means to coordinate, create, and sustain policies and programs which promote investment in small businesses, including those investments which expand employment opportunities and which foster the effective and efficient use of human and natural resources in the economy of the Nation.

(Pub. L. 96302, title III, § 302, July 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 848.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, and not as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection effective Oct. 1, 1980, see section 507 of Pub. L. 96302, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 631 of this title.

Short TitleFor short title of title III of Pub. L. 96302, as the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, see Short Title of 1980 Amendments note set out under section 631 of this title.