[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 696. Ms. WARREN 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 end of subtitle F of title VIII, add the following:
SEC. 866. REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL E-PORTAL.
Section 846(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 41 U.S.C. 1901 note)
is amended by adding at the end the following: ``In any
contract awarded to a commercial portal provider pursuant to
subsection (a), the Administrator shall require that the
provider--
``(1) not force participating suppliers to sell their
products to customers of the portal provider outside of the
program as a condition of participating in the portal;
``(2) clearly and conspicuously communicate to
participating suppliers that they are not required to sell
their products to customers of the portal provider outside of
the program as a condition to participating in the portal;
and
``(3) not take any direct or indirect punitive actions
against participating suppliers that do not sell to customers
of the portal provider outside of the program.''.
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