08-R306
2008 -- S 3024
Enacted 06/12/08
S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N
URGING THE UNITED
STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE "INDEPENDENT OFFICE OF ADVOCACY AND SMALL
BUSINESS REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2008"
Introduced By: Senators
Blais, C Levesque, Alves, Walaska, and McCaffrey
Date Introduced: May 14,
2008
WHEREAS,
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocacy was
created
in 1976. Its mission is to “encourage policies that support the development and
growth of
American
small business”; and
WHEREAS,
In order to successfully advocate for America’s small businesses, the SBA
Office
of Advocacy must truly be an independent “regulatory watchdog” that steadfastly
works
“to
protect, strengthen and effectively represent the nation's small businesses
within the federal
government's
legislative and rule-making processes”; and
WHEREAS,
Over-regulating small businesses, without the independent input and
analysis
provided by the Office of Advocacy, often produces critical and unforeseen
consequences,
that impedes the development, expansion, and creation of new businesses and new
jobs,
and inhibits improvements in the products and services offered by small
businesses; and
WHEREAS,
Currently, the “Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business
Regulatory
Reform Act of 2008” is before Congress. This legislation “will ensure that
small
businesses
are able to focus on growth and productivity instead of rules and red tape”;
now,
therefore
be it
RESOLVED,
That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
hereby
supports the need to provide targeted small business regulatory reforms and
ensure
independence
for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, and calls upon
Congress
to approve the “Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory
Reform
Act of 2008”; and be it further
RESOLVED,
That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is authorized and directed to
transmit
duly certified copies of this resolution to the Rhode Island Congressional
Delegation,
and
Thomas M. Sullivan, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, U.S. Small Business
Administration.
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