Prison to Proprietorship for the Formerly Incarcerated Act

This bill would amend the Small Business Act to require the Small Business Administration, working with the Bureau of Prisons, to have the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) offer entrepreneurship counseling and training nationwide to people formerly held in federal prison. Services would include a year of regular one-on-one mentoring, workshops, help finding local small business resources, and help finding capital and preparing loan or funding applications. SCORE would survey participants about their satisfaction. The Small Business Administration would report to Congress each year on the number of people mentored, mentoring hours, participant demographics, and survey results.

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Sponsors

• Morgan McGarvey Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors