[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4299]
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  SA 2098. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. PLAIN LANGUAGE IN CONTRACTING.

       (a) Accessibility and Clarity in Covered Notices for Small 
     Business Concerns.--
       (1) In general.--Each covered notice shall be written--
       (A) in a manner that is clear, concise, and accessible to a 
     small business concern; and
       (B) in a manner consistent, to the extent practicable, with 
     the Federal plain language guidelines established pursuant to 
     the Plain Writing Act of 2010 (5 U.S.C. 301 note).
       (2) Inclusion of key words in covered notices.--Each 
     covered notice shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
     include key words in the description of the covered notice 
     such that a small business concern seeking contract 
     opportunities using the single governmentwide point of entry 
     described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code, 
     can easily identify and understand such covered notice.
       (3) Rulemaking.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this section, the Administrator of the Small 
     Business Administration shall issue rules to carry out this 
     subsection.
       (4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Covered notice.--The term ``covered notice'' means a 
     notice pertaining to small business concerns published by a 
     Federal agency on the single governmentwide point of entry 
     described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code.
       (B) Small business act definitions.--The terms ``Federal 
     agency'' and ``small business concern'' have the meanings 
     given those terms, respectively, in section 3 of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
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