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Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act
(Sec. 3) This bill amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4742 as reported to Senate without amendment on Sep 26, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Mar 22, 2016
Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
383 Yea 4 Nay 46 not voting
Crossed both parties 4 of 387 voting members broke with their own party: 4 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4742 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4742 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
5 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.