[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6328 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6328

   To require the Secretary of Defense to recognize associations of 
 procurement technical assistance centers under certain circumstances, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2018

Mr. Espaillat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to recognize associations of 
 procurement technical assistance centers under certain circumstances, 
                        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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Advancing Procurement Technical 
Assistance Centers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS.

    (a) Authorization To Form Association.--Procurement Technical 
Assistance Centers are authorized to form an association to pursue 
matters of common concern.
    (b) Recognition by Secretary of Defense.--If more than a majority 
of the Procurement Technical Assistance Centers which are operating 
pursuant to agreements with the Department of Defense are members of 
such an association, the Secretary of Defense is authorized and 
directed to--
            (1) recognize the existence and activities of such an 
        association; and
            (2) consult with it and develop documents--
                    (A) announcing the annual scope of activities 
                pursuant to this section;
                    (B) requesting proposals to deliver assistance as 
                provided in this section; and
                    (C) governing the general operations and 
                administration of the Procurement Technical Assistance 
                Program, specifically including the development of 
                regulations and a uniform negotiated cooperative 
                agreement for use on an annual basis when entering into 
                individual negotiated agreements with Procurement 
                Technical Assistance Centers.
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