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23   microbusiness development.
24     c.  Provide training and technical assistance.
25     d.  Demonstrate an ability to provide access to
26   capital for start-up or expansion of a microbusiness.
27     e.  Have established linkages with financial
28   institutions.
29     f.  Demonstrate an ability to provide follow-up
30   technical assistance after a microbusiness start-up or
31   expansion.
32     3.  Moneys allocated pursuant to this section which
33   remain unexpended or unobligated at the end of a
34   fiscal year shall remain available to the department
35   to support the assistance program or may be credited
36   to the value-added agricultural products and processes
37   financial assistance fund created in section 15E.112
38   and shall not revert notwithstanding section 8.33.
39     4.  The department shall submit a report in
40   accordance with section 7A.11 not later than November
41   1 of each year detailing the activities of the
42   microenterprise organization and describing the
43   success of the project.
44     Sec. ___.  Section 15.313, subsection 2, Code 1995,
45   is amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
46     NEW PARAGRAPH.  g.  The entrepreneurs with
47   disabilities program, which provides technical and
48   financial assistance to help persons with disabilities
49   become self-sufficient and create additional
50   employment opportunities by establishing or expanding

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 1   small business ventures.
 2     NEW PARAGRAPH.  h.  The job opportunities for
 3   persons with disabilities program, which provides
 4   service and technical assistance to rehabilitation
 5   organizations or agencies that create, expand, or spin
 6   off business ventures for persons with disabilities.
 7     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  15A.4  COMPETITIVE
 8   PROGRAMS - GOOD NEIGHBOR AGREEMENT - ADDITIONAL
 9   CONSIDERATION.
10     For any program providing financial assistance for
11   economic development in which the assistance is
12   provided on a competitive basis, a business which
13   enters into a good neighbor agreement shall receive
14   extra consideration of at least ten points or the
15   equivalent.  A good neighbor agreement is an
16   enforceable contract between the business and a
17   community group or coalition of community groups which
18   requires the business to adhere to negotiated
19   environmental, economic, labor, or other social and
20   community standards.
21     A business which fails to abide by the good
22   neighbor agreement shall repay all financial

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