[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2797. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle I of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 896. ANNUAL LIST OF SBIR AWARDS.

       Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(tt) Annual List of Low Participation States.--Each 
     Federal agency participating in the SBIR program shall submit 
     to the appropriate committees of Congress (as defined in 
     subsection (nn)(3)(C)) an annual report that includes, for 
     the preceding 12-month period--
       ``(1) a list of the number of SBIR awards provided to small 
     business concerns in each State; and
       ``(2) a plan to increase the number of SBIR awards provided 
     to small business concerns located in the 10 States listed 
     under paragraph (1) with the lowest number of SBIR awards.''.
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