[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4549 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4549

To authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
make grants to small business concerns to assist the commercialization 
of research developed with funds received under the second phase of the 
              Small Business Innovation Research Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2010

  Mr. Tonko introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Science and Technology, 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 authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
make grants to small business concerns to assist the commercialization 
of research developed with funds received under the second phase 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Innovation to Job 
Creation Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. COMMERCIALIZATION GRANTS TO SMALL BUSINESSES RECEIVING SBIR 
              SECOND PHASE FUNDS.

    (a) Establishment.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration is authorized to make grants on a competitive basis to 
small business concerns to assist the commercialization of research 
developed by such small business concerns with funds received under the 
second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
    (b) Eligibility.--The Administrator may only award a grant under 
this section to a small business concern that--
            (1) received second phase funds during fiscal year 2007 or 
        2008, or both;
            (2) continues to meet the criteria for receiving second 
        phase funds at the time the grant is awarded, except for any 
        such criteria that the Administrator determines are no longer 
        applicable;
            (3) has obtained from the Federal agency from which the 
        small business concern received second phase funds a 
        recommendation that the small business concern be made a grant 
        under this section;
            (4) has not previously received a grant under this section 
        for the commercialization of the same research; and
            (5) submits an application at such time and in such form as 
        the Administrator may require, including--
                    (A) a description of the commercialization project 
                for which the small business concern will use the grant 
                funds;
                    (B) the budget for such project; and
                    (C) a certification that the small business concern 
                meets the criteria described in paragraph (2).
    (c) Grant Amount.--A grant under this section shall be in an amount 
the Administrator, in consultation with the Federal agency from which 
the small business concern received second phase funds, considers 
appropriate, but such grant shall not exceed the amount of the second 
phase funds received by such small business concern with respect to the 
research involved.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
        the Small Business Administration; and
            (2) the terms ``Federal agency'', ``research'', ``second 
        phase'', and ``Small Business Innovation Research Program'' 
        have the meanings given such terms in section 9(e) of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)).
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 
2011.
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