[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1759. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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. __. ELIGIBILITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN 
                   MARIANA ISLANDS FOR CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS 
                   ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS.

       The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 21(a) (15 U.S.C. 648(a))--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting before ``The 
     Administration shall require'' the following new sentence: 
     ``The previous sentence shall not apply to an applicant that 
     has its principal office located in the Commonwealth of the 
     Northern Mariana Islands.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (4)(C)(ix), by striking ``and American 
     Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and the Commonwealth 
     of the Northern Mariana Islands''; and
       (2) in section 34(a)(9) (15 U.S.C. 657d(a)(9)), by striking 
     ``and American Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and 
     the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''.
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