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US HR255

US HR255
Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act


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Introduced
01/04/2017
In Committee
01/24/2017
Crossed Over
01/11/2017
Passed
02/16/2017
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
02/28/2017

Introduced Session

115th Congress

Bill Summary

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.

AI Summary

This bill amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women in extending their focus from the laboratory to the commercial world. The bill aims to promote women's participation in entrepreneurship and commercialization of scientific and technological innovations, given that women make up a small percentage of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce and tend to be underrepresented in leadership positions in technology and commercialization ventures, despite studies showing that such ventures are more successful when women are involved in top management.

Committee Categories

Business and Industry, Transportation and Infrastructure

Sponsors (45)

Elizabeth Esty (D)* Alma Adams (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Susan Brooks (R),  Mike Coffman (R),  Steve Cohen (D),  Barbara Comstock (R),  Jim Costa (D),  Ryan Costello (R),  Susan Davis (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Bill Foster (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Eddie Johnson (D),  Bill Keating (D),  Robin Kelly (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Stephen Knight (R),  James Langevin (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Daniel Lipinski (D),  Nita Lowey (D),  Betty McCollum (D),  Stephanie Murphy (D),  Donald Norcross (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Beto O'Rourke (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Ed Perlmutter (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Amata Radewagen (R),  Edward Royce (R),  Tim Ryan (D),  David Scott (D),  José Serrano (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Kyrsten Sinema (I),  Lamar Smith (R),  Darren Soto (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Paul Tonko (D),  Timothy Walz (D),  Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Last Action

Became Public Law No: 115-6. (TXT | PDF) (on 02/28/2017)

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