[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 1860 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1860

To reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2001

Mr. Ehlers (for himself, and Mr. Barcia) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition 
to the Committee on Science, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SOLICITATIONS.

    Section 9(o)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(o)(2)) is 
amended by inserting ``, which may be conjoined with SBIR 
solicitations,'' after ``STTR solicitations''.

SEC. 2. DATABASE.

    (a) Collection.--
            (1) Amendment.--Section 9(o)(9) of the Small Business Act 
        (15 U.S.C. 638(o)(9)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(9) collect, and maintain in a common format in 
        accordance with subsection (v), such information from awardees 
        as is necessary to assess the STTR program, including 
        information necessary to maintain the database described in 
        subsection (k);''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 9(v) of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(v)) is amended by inserting ``or 
        STTR'' after ``SBIR'' both places it appears.
    (b) Database.--Section 9(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(k)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or STTR'' after ``SBIR'' each place it 
        appears in paragraph (1);
            (2) by inserting ``or required to have an STTR program 
        pursuant to subsection (n),'' after ``subsection (f)(1),'' in 
        paragraph (2);
            (3) by inserting ``and STTR'' after ``solely for SBIR'' in 
        paragraph (2); and
            (4) by inserting ``or STTR'' after ``SBIR'' in paragraph 
        (2)(A)(iii) and (D).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION.

    Section 9(n)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(n)(1)) is 
amended by striking ``and 2001'' and inserting ``2001, 2002, 2003, 
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008''.
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