[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3503-S3504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 459. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. 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:
       ``(vv) Annual List of Low Participation States.--Each 
     Federal agency participating in the SBIR program shall 
     include in the report required under subsection (b)(7), for 
     the preceding 12-month period--

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       ``(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 applications 
     submitted by small business concerns located in the 20 States 
     listed under paragraph (1) with the lowest number of SBIR 
     awards.''.
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