[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5482]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5973. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Ms. Hirono) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 D of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 866. CONSIDERATION OF NATIVE SMALL BUSINESS SISTER 
                   SUBSIDIARY PAST PERFORMANCE.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall amend section 
     215.305 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (or any 
     successor regulation) to require that when Native-owned small 
     businesses bid on Department of Defense contracts, the past 
     performance evaluation and source selection processes shall 
     consider the past performance information of sister 
     subsidiary predecessor companies of the Native-owned small 
     businesses.
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