---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9572"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9572"
heading: "Composition and term"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9572"
units:
  - "Chapter 120 — Minority Business Development"
  - "Subchapter V — Minority Business Enterprises Advisory Council"
---

# §9572. Composition and term

- (a) **Composition—** The Council shall be composed of 9 members of the private sector and 1 representative from each of not fewer than 10 [Federal agencies](/usc/15/9501.md?p=4) that support or otherwise have duties that relate to business formation, including duties relating to labor development, monetary policy, national security, energy, agriculture, transportation, and housing.
- (b) **Chair—** The [Under Secretary](/usc/15/9501.md?p=19) shall designate 1 of the private sector members of the Council as the Chair of the Council for a 1-year term.
- (c) **Term—** The Council shall meet at the request of the [Under Secretary](/usc/15/9501.md?p=19) and members shall serve for a term of 2 years. Members of the Council may be reappointed.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. K, title V, § 100502, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1463.)