[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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