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T2025-2996
| * | | | | Oversight - Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Small Businesses. | Oversight | | | |
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Int 0449-2024
| * | Althea V. Stevens | | | Creation of a commerical landlord watch list. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services to establish and maintain a commercial landlord watch list. This watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past 10 years, has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have engaged in commercial tenant harassment within the meaning of section 22-902 of the Administrative Code. In addition, the watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past three years, has engaged in a pattern of behavior that in the opinion of the Commissioner is consistent with harassment or exploitation of a commercial tenant. | | |
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Int 1082-2024
| * | Mercedes Narcisse | | | Study and report on fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS) to conduct a study of fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business, and to post online and issue to the Mayor and Speaker of the Council a report that includes recommendations to reduce or offset such fees and costs. The study and report would have a distinct focus on regulatory compliance fees and costs, and on fees and costs unique to small businesses that are minority or women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) and to small businesses located in neighborhoods underserved by public transportation. | | |
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Int 1132-2024
| * | Oswald Feliz | | | Geographically targeted regulatory compliance services for small businesses. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), together with the Office for Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) to determine, on an annual basis, the most common types of regulatory violations issued to businesses in each Community District. SBS would also be required to develop specially tailored regulatory compliance services for small businesses in each Community District, and to annually report on its findings, programming, and recommendations in relation to geographic trends in regulatory compliance challenges. | | |
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