---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 80c"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "80c"
heading: "Liaison between Securities and Exchange Commission and Small Business Administration"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/80c"
units:
  - "Chapter 2E — Omnibus Small Business Capital Formation"
---

# §80c. Liaison between Securities and Exchange Commission and Small Business Administration

- (a) **Studies on needs, problems, and costs of businesses; availability—** The [Securities](/usc/15/78lll.md?p=14) and [Exchange](/usc/15/636.md?p=a-36-A-xvi) [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) shall gather, analyze, and make available to the public, information with respect to the capital formation needs, and the problems and costs involved with new, small, medium-sized, and independent businesses.
- (b) **Availability of studies to Small Business Administration—** The [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) shall make the results of such studies available to the [Small Business](/usc/15/1691c–2.md?p=h-2) [Administration](/usc/15/2203.md?p=2) and otherwise have regular communication and liaison with such [Administration](/usc/15/2203.md?p=2) in these matters.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 502, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2292.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 507, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2294, provided that: “Except as otherwise specified, the amendments made by this title [enacting this chapter and amending section 77s of this title] shall become effective January 1 of the year following the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 21, 1980].”

### Short Title

Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 501, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2291, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending section 77s of this title] may be cited as the ‘Omnibus Small Business Capital Formation Act of 1980’.”