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15 U.S.C. § 657p — Outreach regarding health insurance options available to children

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15 U.S.C. § 657p — Outreach regarding health insurance options available to children

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**(a) Definitions** In this section— (1) the terms “Administration” and “Administrator” means the Small Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, respectively; (2) the term “certified development company” means a development company participating in the program under title V of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 ([15 U.S.C. 695](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section695&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (3) the term “Medicaid program” means the program established under title XIX of the Social Security Act ([42 U.S.C. 1396](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1396&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (4) the term “Service Corps of Retired Executives” means the Service Corps of Retired Executives authorized by [section 637(b)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section637/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim); (5) the term “small business concern” has the meaning given that term in [section 632 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section632&num=0&edition=prelim); (6) the term “small business development center” means a small business development center described in [section 648 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section648&num=0&edition=prelim); (7) the term “State” has the meaning given that term for purposes of title XXI of the Social Security Act ([42 U.S.C. 1397aa](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397aa&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (8) the term “State Children’s Health Insurance Program” means the State Children’s Health Insurance Program established under title XXI of the Social Security Act ([42 U.S.C. 1397aa](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397aa&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (9) the term “task force” means the task force established under subsection (b)(1); and (10) the term “women’s business center” means a women’s business center described in [section 656 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section656&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Establishment of task force** (1) **Establishment** — There is established a task force to conduct a nationwide campaign of education and outreach for small business concerns regarding the availability of coverage for children through private insurance options, the Medicaid program, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. (2) **Membership** — The task force shall consist of the Administrator, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of the Treasury. (3) **Responsibilities** — The campaign conducted under this subsection shall include— (A) efforts to educate the owners of small business concerns about the value of health coverage for children; (B) information regarding options available to the owners and employees of small business concerns to make insurance more affordable, including Federal and State tax deductions and credits for health care-related expenses and health insurance expenses and Federal tax exclusion for health insurance options available under employer-sponsored cafeteria plans under [section 125 of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section125&num=0&edition=prelim); (C) efforts to educate the owners of small business concerns about assistance available through public programs; and (D) efforts to educate the owners and employees of small business concerns regarding the availability of the hotline operated as part of the Insure Kids Now program of the Department of Health and Human Services. (4) **Implementation** — In carrying out this subsection, the task force may— (A) use any business partner of the Administration, including— (i) a small business development center; (ii) a certified development company; (iii) a women’s business center; and (iv) the Service Corps of Retired Executives; (B) enter into— (i) a memorandum of understanding with a chamber of commerce; and (ii) a partnership with any appropriate small business concern or health advocacy group; and (C) designate outreach programs at regional offices of the Department of Health and Human Services to work with district offices of the Administration. (5) **Website** — The Administrator shall ensure that links to information on the eligibility and enrollment requirements for the Medicaid program and State Children’s Health Insurance Program of each State are prominently displayed on the website of the Administration. (6) **Report** (A) *In general* — Not later than 2 years after February 4, 2009, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report on the status of the nationwide campaign conducted under paragraph (1). (B) *Contents* — Each report submitted under subparagraph (A) shall include a status update on all efforts made to educate owners and employees of small business concerns on options for providing health insurance for children through public and private alternatives.

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42 U.S.C. § 1397aa — Purpose; State child health plans

**(a) Purpose** Except with respect to the rural health transformation program established in [section 1397ee(h) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397ee/h&num=0&edition=prelim), the purpose of this subchapter is to provide funds to States to enable them to initiate and expand the provision of child health assistance to uninsured, low-income children in an effective and efficient manner that is coordinated with other sources of health benefits coverage for children. Such assistance shall be provided primarily for obtaining health benefits coverage through— (1) obtaining coverage that meets the requirements of [section 1397cc of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397cc&num=0&edition=prelim), or (2) providing benefits under the State’s medicaid plan under subchapter XIX, or a combination of both. **(b) State child health plan required** A State is not eligible for payment under subsection (a) or (g) of [section 1397ee of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397ee&num=0&edition=prelim) unless the State has submitted to the Secretary under [section 1397ff of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397ff&num=0&edition=prelim) a plan that— (1) sets forth how the State intends to use the funds provided under this subchapter to provide child health assistance to needy children consistent with the provisions of this subchapter, and (2) has been approved under [section 1397ff of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1397ff&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) State entitlement** This subchapter constitutes budget authority i

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26 U.S.C. § 125 — Cafeteria plans

**(a) General rule** Except as provided in subsection (b), no amount shall be included in the gross income of a participant in a cafeteria plan solely because, under the plan, the participant may choose among the benefits of the plan. **(b) Exception for highly compensated participants and key employees** (1) **Highly compensated participants** — In the case of a highly compensated participant, subsection (a) shall not apply to any benefit attributable to a plan year for which the plan discriminates in favor of— (A) highly compensated individuals as to eligibility to participate, or (B) highly compensated participants as to contributions and benefits. (2) **Key employees** — In the case of a key employee (within the meaning of section 416(i)(1)), subsection (a) shall not apply to any benefit attributable to a plan for which the qualified benefits provided to key employees exceed 25 percent of the aggregate of such benefits provided for all employees under the plan. For purposes of the preceding sentence, qualified benefits shall be determined without regard to the second sentence of subsection (f). (3) **Year of inclusion** — For purposes of determining the taxable year of inclusion, any benefit described in paragraph (1) or (2) shall be treated as received or accrued in the taxable year of the participant or key employee in which the plan year ends. **(c) Discrimination as to benefits or contributions** For purposes of subparagraph (B) of subsection (b)(1), a cafeteria plan does not discriminate where qualified benefits and total benefits (or employer contributions allocable to qualified benefits and employer contributions for total benefits) do not discriminate in favor of highly compensated participants. **(d) Cafeteria plan defined** For purposes of this

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15 U.S.C. § 695 — State development companies

**(a) Congressional finding and declaration of purpose** The Congress hereby finds and declares that the purpose of this subchapter is to foster economic development and to create or preserve job opportunities in both urban and rural areas by providing long-term financing for small business concerns through the development company program authorized by this subchapter. **(b) Loans; obligations of development companies** The Administration is authorized to make loans to State development companies to assist in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. Any funds advanced under this subsection shall be in exchange for obligations of the development company which bear interest at such rate, and contain such other terms, as the Administration may fix, and funds may be so advanced without regard to the use and investment by the development company of funds secured by it from other sources. **(c) Maximum loans to development companies** The total amount of obligations purchased and outstanding at any one time by the Administration under this section from any one State development company shall not exceed the total amount borrowed by it from all other sources. Funds advanced to a State development company under this section shall be treated on an equal basis with those funds borrowed by such company after August 21, 1958, regardless of source, which have the highest priority, except when this requirement is waived by the Administrator. **(d) Eligibility for assistance** In order to qualify for assistance under this subchapter, the development company must demonstrate that the project to be funded is directed toward at least one of the following economic development objectives— (1) the creation of job opportunities within two years of the completion of the project or the pr

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42 U.S.C. § 1396 — Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission

**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (in this section referred to as “MACPAC”). **(b) Duties** (1) **Review of access policies for all States and annual reports** — MACPAC shall— (A) review policies of the Medicaid program established under this subchapter (in this section referred to as “Medicaid”) and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program established under subchapter XXI (in this section referred to as “CHIP”) affecting access to covered items and services, including topics described in paragraph (2); (B) make recommendations to Congress, the Secretary, and States concerning such access policies; (C) by not later than March 15 of each year (beginning with 2010), submit a report to Congress containing the results of such reviews and MACPAC’s recommendations concerning such policies; and (D) by not later than June 15 of each year (beginning with 2010), submit a report to Congress containing an examination of issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP, including the implications of changes in health care delivery in the United States and in the market for health care services on such programs. (2) **Specific topics to be reviewed** — Specifically, MACPAC shall review and assess the following: (A) *Medicaid and CHIP payment policies* — Payment policies under Medicaid and CHIP, including— (i) the factors affecting expenditures for the efficient provision of items and services in different sectors, including the process for updating payments to medical, dental, and health professionals, hospitals, residential and long-term care providers, providers of home and community based services, Federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics, managed care entities, and providers of ot

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15 U.S.C. § 632 — Definitions

**(a) Small business concerns** (1) **In general** — For the purposes of this chapter, a small-business concern, including but not limited to enterprises that are engaged in the business of production of food and fiber, ranching and raising of livestock, aquaculture, and all other farming and agricultural related industries, shall be deemed to be one which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operation. (2) **Establishment of size standards** (A) *In general* — In addition to the criteria specified in paragraph (1) and subject to the requirements specified under subparagraph (C), the Administrator may specify detailed definitions or standards by which a business concern may be determined to be a small business concern for the purposes of this chapter or any other Act. (B) *Additional criteria* — The standards described in paragraph (1) may utilize number of employees, dollar volume of business, net worth, net income, a combination thereof, or other appropriate factors. (C) *Requirements* — Unless specifically authorized by statute, no Federal department (including the Administration when acting pursuant to subparagraph (A)) or agency may prescribe a size standard for categorizing a business concern as a small business concern, unless such proposed size standard— (i) is proposed after an opportunity for public notice and comment; (ii) provides for determining— (I) the size of a manufacturing concern as measured by the manufacturing concern’s average employment based upon employment during each of the manufacturing concern’s pay periods for the preceding 24 months; (II) the size of a business concern providing services on the basis of the annual average gross receipts of the business concern over

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15 U.S.C. § 661 — Congressional declaration of policy

It is declared to be the policy of the Congress and the purpose of this chapter to improve and stimulate the national economy in general and the small-business segment thereof in particular by establishing a program to stimulate and supplement the flow of private equity capital and long-term loan funds which small-business concerns need for the sound financing of their business operations and for their growth, expansion, and modernization, and which are not available in adequate supply: Provided, however, That this policy shall be carried out in such manner as to insure the maximum participation of private financing sources.

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15 U.S.C. § 648 — Small business development center program authorization

**(a) Grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for establishment of small business development centers and for small business activities and purposes; role of Administration; non-Federal additional amount; amount of grant; eligibility** (1) The Administration is authorized to make grants (including contracts and cooperative agreements) to any State government or any agency thereof, any regional entity, any State-chartered development, credit or finance corporation, any women’s business center operating pursuant to [section 656 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section656&num=0&edition=prelim), any public or private institution of higher education, including but not limited to any land-grant college or university, any college or school of business, engineering, commerce, or agriculture, community college or junior college, or to any entity formed by two or more of the above entities (herein referred to as “applicants”) to assist in establishing small business development centers and to any such body for: small business oriented employment or natural resources development programs; studies, research, and counseling concerning the managing, financing, and operation of small business enterprises; management and technical assistance regarding small business participation in international markets, export promotion and technology transfer; delivery or distribution of such services and information; providing access to business analysts who can refer small business concerns to available experts; and, to the extent practicable, providing assistance in furtherance of the Small Business Development Center Cyber Strategy developed under section 1841(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017: Provided, Tha

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42 U.S.C. § 1305 — Short title of chapter

This chapter may be cited as the “Social Security Act”.

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15 U.S.C. § 656 — Women’s Business Center program

**(a) Definitions** In this section— (1) the term “Assistant Administrator” means the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership established under subsection (g); (2) the term “private nonprofit organization” means an entity that is described in [section 501(c) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section501/c&num=0&edition=prelim) and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such title; (3) the term “small business concern owned and controlled by women”, either startup or existing, includes any small business concern— (A) that is not less than 51 percent owned by 1 or more women; and (B) the management and daily business operations of which are controlled by 1 or more women; and (4) the term “women’s business center site” means the location of— (A) a women’s business center; or (B) 1 or more women’s business centers, established in conjunction with another women’s business center in another location within a State or region— (i) that reach a distinct population that would otherwise not be served; (ii) whose services are targeted to women; and (iii) whose scope, function, and activities are similar to those of the primary women’s business center or centers in conjunction with which it was established. **(b) Authority** The Administration may provide financial assistance to private nonprofit organizations to conduct 5-year projects for the benefit of small business concerns owned and controlled by women. The projects shall provide— (1) financial assistance, including training and counseling in how to apply for and secure business credit and investment capital, preparing and presenting financial statements, and managing cash flow and other financial operations of a b

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15 U.S.C. § 657p — Outreach regarding health insurance op-

Page 1073 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 657p 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘subsection (a)’’. for a loan under subsection (b) or (c) of section 636 of this title, as the case may be, shall repay the loan guaranteed under subsection (a) not later than the date established by the Administrator, which may not be earlier than 10 years after the date on which the loan guar- anteed under subsection 1 is disbursed. (e) Approval or disapproval The Administrator shall ensure that each ap- plicant for a loan under the program receives a decision approving or disapproving of the appli- cation within 36 hours after the Administration receives the application. (Pub. L. 85–536, § 2[42], as added Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, § 12084, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1420, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, § 12084, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2182.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of Title 7, Agriculture. § 657o. Annual reports on disaster assistance Not later than 45 days after the end of a fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepre- neurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report on the disaster assistance operations of the Administration for that fiscal year. The re- port shall— (1) specify the number of Administration personnel involved in such operations;

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