[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 20, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE INNOVATIVE COMMERCIAL ITEMS ACT OF 
                                  2022

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Government Affairs be discharged from further 
consideration of S. 4552 and the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 4552) to extend the program for authority to 
     acquire innovative commercial items using general 
     solicitation procedures.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 4552) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 4552

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Extension of Authority to 
     Acquire Innovative Commercial Items Act of 2022''.

     SEC. 2. INNOVATIVE COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

       Section 880 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2017 (41 U.S.C. 3301 note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``$10,000,000'' and 
     inserting ``$25,000,000'';
       (2) by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
       ``(f) Definitions.--In this section--
       ``(1) the term `commercial product'--
       ``(A) has the meaning given the term `commercial item' in 
     section 2.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation; and
       ``(B) includes a commercial product or a commercial 
     service, as those terms are defined in sections 103 and 103a, 
     respectively, of this title; and
       ``(2) the term `innovative' means--
       ``(A) any new technology, process, or method, including 
     research and development; or
       ``(B) any new application of an existing technology, 
     process, or method.''; and
       (3) in subsection (g), by striking ``2022'' and inserting 
     ``2027''.

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