[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 118 (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2318]
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  SA 145. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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 in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. CLARIFICATION THAT FEDERAL LABORATORIES CAN USE 
                   PARTNERSHIP INTERMEDIARIES FOR TECHNOLOGY 
                   TRANSFER FUNCTIONS.

       Section 23 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation 
     Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3715) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting ``and transition 
     functions'' after ``technology transfer''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by inserting ``or who can assist a 
     Federal laboratory with technology transition, either out of, 
     or into the Federal laboratory,'' after ``from a Federal 
     laboratory,''.
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