Representative Steve Knight (CA-25) hit a legislative milestone last week when the President signed into law a measure that included his first bill.
H.R. 1390, the Small Business Joint Venturing Act, will give small businesses a better chance to compete for federal contracts by allowing them to form joint ventures and work together on contracts while maintaining their small business status. The legislation was originally introduced in the House of Representatives in March, and quickly passed through the House Small Business Committee with unanimous support.
In late April it was added as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2016, which authorizes the budgets and expenditures for most national defense operations in the upcoming fiscal year. The NDAA, along with Rep. Knight’s bill, passed the House Armed Services Committee as well as both the House and Senate floors, but was vetoed by the President in November due to a disagreement over spending that was unrelated to H.R. 1390.
A compromise was reached between the President and Congress, and on Wednesday the NDAA and the Small Business Joint Venturing Act were signed into law.
“I am glad that my bill made its way through the twists and turns of the legislative process,” continued Representative Knight. “Ultimately, this measure will help the many small businesses in my community that want to compete for federal contracts, but don’t have the resources to do so on their own.”
The Small Business Joint Venturing Act is now law, and will be implemented by the Small Business Administration in 2016. Small businesses will be able to take advantage of its provisions late next year.
Representative Steve Knight, (R-Antelope Valley), represents California’s 25th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, which includes the communities throughout the Antelope, Santa Clarita and Simi Valleys.
[Information via news release from Representative Steve Knight.]
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Cynic says
I’ve wondered, is Knight aligned with King Rex and the Fern Street Mafia or with the much saner Ledford/Antonovich sphere of influence..?
Tim Scott says
At a guess, and a guess being all I have, being related to Pete Knight puts him in more with Ledford and Antonovich.
This new law is a different thing though. There is this idea that it is a big deal in the “friend of small business sticking up for the little guy” world. But allowing small business coalitions to compete with large companies without their constituent companies losing small business status is a benefit that will make no difference to the vast majority of small businesses, and that only if they actually form a coalition that gets a bid, which seems generally unlikely to ever happen.
It sort of smacks of “this one guy has an idea, and changing this paves the way for him and his associates to try this thing they want to try,” in my opinion. It would be interesting to know how many times this law applies over the next couple years and exactly who are the beneficiaries.
As a reminder, there was a “rider” attached to a spending bill fifty years ago that passed in exactly the same way this did. It looked like a really reasonable idea, in that it “prevented monopolization that could stifle opposing opinions” by making it illegal to own multiple media sources (TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers) in the same market and was governed by this really complex formula that considered the number of outlets in the market of each type and other factors. Then someone ran the formula on every one of the top hundred media markets in the country and found that there was exactly ONE person in the entire country who was affected by the law, and he just happened to be a critic of the Kennedy family in Boston. Coincidentally, the bill was proposed by Ted Kennedy.
ERIK says
Steve Knight has expressed dismay at the way Parris runs the city of Lancaster and the opposition between Parris and Knight have gone both ways. I don’t think there is any love between the two.
If I remember correctly, Parris was in favor of Strickland and did not endorse Knight.
Parris is insane. I feel bad for Ledford, who I think is a nice guy, because Parris will not stay out of Palmdale’s business. It makes it hard to do your job when the mayor-next-door is a bully who runs a law office which is always on the attack.
Reason says
No, Knight is not aligned with King Rex. Rex is still butt hurt because Knight supports the power plant (along with just about everyone else except Rex and his ilk). Rex also supported carpetbagger Tony Strickland in the last election, mocking Knight every chance he could. Rex even tried to blame the rainbow flag fiasco at the AV Fair on Knight, even though Rex knew full well it was one of his own yes men who called the fair up in arms.
Rex is no friend to this Valley. Knight is.
*** says
Would be nice if the residents of Lancaster fight for their city, and petition Knight in having the Fern St Mafia audited. Yet Rex continues to rack up friend’s property taxes while taking over county maintenance like streetlights and such. You know, like the marvelous job Rex has done painting our streets with black and white paint and calling it “Road maintenance”. Suckers!
Anon says
Rex controls large churches which deliver votes. The lemmings who do not think for themselves follow their “spiritual” leaders who spend time doing political surveys for King Rex rather than doing the Lord’s work. Pray for true spiritual awakening of those deceived by these wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Not a fan says
don’t forget all the rest of rex’s failures: ecolution, bird music, LEAPS. now the la times is reporting that BYD is being investigated again for wage violations. everything rex touches is tainted.
rf says
*Anon* is wrong. Rex doesn’t control the large churches, they control him. That JonesTown monstrosity on the Eastside being the main string puller.
Ryan Hunt says
Nice job Representative Steve Knight, for getting this bill signed for us small business owners out there!