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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 6, 2016)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. KNIGHT:H.R. 4322.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause I ofSection 8 Article I of the United States Constitution, whichprovides Congress with the ability to enact legislationnecessary and proper to effectuate its purposes in taxing andspending.[Page H101]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Mentor-Protege Cooperation Reform Act of 2016</b></p> <p>This bill amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the no-affiliation requirement in the eligibility criteria under the Mentor-Protege Program of the Department of Defense (DOD) for a mentor firm to receive the award of a federal contract and enter into an agreement with one or more protege firms to provide them certain assistance.</p> <p>The bill establishes procedures for the Small Business Administration (SBA) or DOD to determine that no affiliation between mentor and protege exists.</p> <p>The bill amends the Small Business Act to bar DOD from carrying out a Mentor-Protege Program for a small business unless: (1) it submits a plan to the SBA, and (2) the SBA approves that plan. </p>]]></text>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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