[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3846-S3847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2816. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Brown) 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:

       Strike section 893 and insert the following:

     SEC. 893. PERMANENT SBIR AND STTR AUTHORITY FOR THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND PILOT PROGRAM 
                   EXTENSION.

       Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (f)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``shall not'' and all 
     that follows through ``make available'' and inserting ``shall 
     not make available''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) Administrative costs.--A Federal agency may use up to 
     3 percent of its SBIR budget established pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) for the purpose of funding administrative costs 
     of the program.'';
       (2) in subsection (m), by inserting ``, except with respect 
     to the Department of Defense'' after ``September 30, 2022'';
       (3) in subsection (n)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(A)--
       (i) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of 
     Defense, any fiscal year)'' after ``2022''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of 
     Defense, for any fiscal year)'' after ``for that fiscal 
     year'';
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``shall not'' and all 
     that follows through ``make available'' and inserting ``shall 
     not make available''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:

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       ``(4) Administrative costs.--A Federal agency may use up to 
     3 percent of its SBIR budget established pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) for the purpose of funding administrative costs 
     of the program.''; and
       (4) in subsection (cc), by striking ``During fiscal years'' 
     and all that follows through ``may each provide'' and 
     inserting ``During fiscal years 2018 through 2022, each 
     Federal agency participating in the SBIR program may 
     provide''.
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