[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 228. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. MICROLOAN PROGRAM DEFINITIONS.

       Section 7(m)(11) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
     636(m)(11)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking the period at the 
     end and inserting a semicolon;
       (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(E) the term `State' means each of the several States of 
     the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
     of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the 
     Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American 
     Samoa.''.
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