[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3967-S3968]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2321. Mrs. SHAHEEN 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. ___. PERMANENT SBIR AND STTR AUTHORITY FOR THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is 
     amended--

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       (1) in subsection (m), by inserting ``, except with respect 
     to the Department of Defense'' after ``September 30, 2022''; 
     and
       (2) in subsection (n)(1)(A)--
       (A) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of 
     Defense, any fiscal year)'' after ``2022''; and
       (B) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of 
     Defense, for any fiscal year)'' after ``for that fiscal 
     year''.
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