False Alarm

• In the House Committee on Small Business, chair Jim Talent (R-MO) established the Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, Business Opportunity and Special Small Business Problems. On the agenda: distribution, transportation and attrition problems.

• Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) introduced a bill (S.343) that would make health-care premiums paid by the self-employed fully deductible.

• S.314 just passed the Senate Committee on Small Business and is awaiting action by the entire body. The bill would enable entrepreneurs to obtain loans under the SBA's 7(a) program for Y2K compliance repairs.

Contact Sources

National Federation of Independent Business, 600 Maryland Ave. S.W., #700, Washington, DC 20024

National Foundation for Women Business Owners, (301) 495-4975, http://www.nfwbo.org

SBA Office of Advocacy,http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats

This article was originally published in the April 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: False Alarm.