[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 265. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 appropriate place in title VIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. ENHANCED SMALL BUSINESS ACCESS TO FEDERAL 
                   INNOVATION INVESTMENTS.

       (a) SBIR.--Section 9(f) of the Small Business Act (15 
     U.S.C. 638(f)) is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     ``expend'' and inserting ``obligate for expenditure'';
       (2) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (3) in subparagraph (I), by striking ``and each fiscal year 
     thereafter,'' and inserting ``; and''; and
       (4) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the following:
       ``(J) for the Department of Defense--
       ``(i) not less than 3.5 percent of the budget for research, 
     development, test, and evaluation of the Department of 
     Defense in each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021;
       ``(ii) not less than 4 percent of such budget in each of 
     fiscal years 2022 and 2023;
       ``(iii) not less than 4.5 percent of such budget in each of 
     fiscal years 2024 and 2025; and
       ``(iv) not less than 5 percent of such budget in each of 
     fiscal years 2026 and 2027,''.
       (b) STTR.--Section 9(n)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 
     U.S.C. 638(n)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by striking ``expend'' and inserting ``obligate for 
     expenditure''; and
       (B) by striking ``not less than the percentage of that 
     extramural budget specified in subparagraph (B)'' and 
     inserting ``for a Federal agency other than the Department of 
     Defense, not less than the percentage of that extramural 
     budget specified in subparagraph (B) and, for the Department 
     of Defense, not less than the percentage of the budget for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation of the Department 
     of Defense specified in subparagraph (B)''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B)--
       (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``the 
     extramural budget required to be expended by an agency'' and 
     inserting ``the extramural budget, for a Federal agency other 
     than the Department of Defense, and of the budget for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation, for the 
     Department of Defense, required to be obligated for 
     expenditure with small business concerns'';
       (B) in clause (iv), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (C) in clause (v), by striking ``fiscal year 2016 and each 
     fiscal year thereafter.'' and inserting ``each of fiscal 
     years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019;''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(vi) 0.55 percent for each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021;
       ``(vii) 0.65 percent for each of fiscal years 2022 and 
     2023;
       ``(viii) 0.75 percent for each of fiscal years 2024 and 
     2025; and
       ``(ix) 1 percent for fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter.''.
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