[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4719 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4719

  To provide, temporarily, authority for the Secretary of Commerce to 
    waive cost sharing requirements for the Hollings Manufacturing 
             Extension Partnership, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 24, 2020

   Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Coons, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
    Booker, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Bennet) 
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 provide, temporarily, authority for the Secretary of Commerce to 
    waive cost sharing requirements for the Hollings Manufacturing 
             Extension Partnership, 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 ``Helping Manufacturers Respond to 
COVID-19 Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY WAIVER OF HOLLINGS MANUFACTURING EXTENSION 
              PARTNERSHIP COST SHARING REQUIREMENT.

    The Secretary of Commerce may waive all or a portion of the 
requirements of subsection (e)(2) of section 25 of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k) with respect 
to the provision under such section by the Secretary of capital and 
annual operating and maintenance funds required to establish and 
support a Center (as defined in subsection (a) of such section) to the 
degree that such funds are derived from amounts specifically 
appropriated for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership for 
fiscal year 2021.
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