[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 695 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 695

     To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching 
requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership 
                                Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2009

  Ms. Snowe (for herself, Mr. Kohl, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Brown, and Mr. 
  Lieberman) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
     To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reduce the matching 
requirement for participants in the Hollings Manufacturing Partnership 
                                Program.

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

SECTION 1. HOLLINGS MANUFACTURING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM.

    Section 25(c) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Act (15 U.S.C. 278k(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``except as specifically 
        authorized by law'' before the period at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ``not less than 50 
        percent of the costs incurred for the first 3 years and an 
        increasing share for each of the last 3 years'' and inserting 
        ``50 percent of the costs incurred or such lesser percentage of 
        the costs incurred as determined by the Secretary, by rule, and 
        authorized by law''; and
            (3) in paragraph (5)--
                    (A) by striking ``at declining levels''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Funding received for a fiscal 
                year under this section shall not exceed one third'' 
                and inserting ``Except as provided under paragraph 
                (3)(B), funding received for a fiscal year under this 
                section after the sixth year of operation shall not 
                exceed 50 percent''.
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