[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4684 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4684

   To amend the Small Business Act to provide for an increase in the 
    amount of awards under the first and second phases of the Small 
                 Business Innovation Research program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2006

  Mr. Cramer 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 amend the Small Business Act to provide for an increase in the 
    amount of awards under the first and second phases of the Small 
                 Business Innovation Research program.

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

SECTION 1. INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF AWARDS UNDER SBIR PROGRAM.

    (a) Increase Required.--Section 9(j) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 638(j)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (D) and redesignating 
                subparagraphs (E) through (I) as subparagraphs (D) 
                through (H), respectively; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (H), as so redesignated, by 
                striking ``subparagraph (H)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (G)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) Amount of Awards.--The program directives issued pursuant to 
this subsection shall provide that an agency may award an amount of not 
more than $145,000 in the first phase of an SBIR program and an amount 
of not more than $1,010,000 in the second phase of an SBIR program. 
Such amounts shall be adjusted once every 5 years to reflect economic 
adjustments and programmatic considerations.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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