[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4772]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2455. Mrs. SHAHEEN 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 D of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 865. REMOVING THE REASONABLE EXPECTATION REQUIREMENT 
                   FROM SOLE SOURCE CONTRACTS.

       (a) Women-owned Small Business Concerns.--Section 8(m) of 
     the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(m)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (7)(A), by striking ``and the contracting 
     officer'' and all that follows through ``offers''; and
       (2) in paragraph (8)(A), by striking ``and the contracting 
     officer'' and all that follows through ``offers''.
       (b) HUBZone Program.--Section 31(c)(2)(A)(i) of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657a(c)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by 
     striking ``, and the contracting officer'' and all that 
     follows through ``offers for the contracting opportunity''.
       (c) Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by 
     Service-disabled Veterans.--Section 36(c)(1) of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f(c)(1)) is amended by striking 
     ``and the contracting officer'' and all that follows through 
     ``offers for the contracting opportunity''.
       (d) Reporting Regarding Sole Source Contracts.--Section 
     15(j) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(j)) is amended 
     by adding at the end the following:
       ``(4)(A) Not later than December 31 of the first year 
     beginning after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and 
     every 2 years thereafter, the head of each Federal agency 
     shall submit to the Administrator and Congress and make 
     publicly available a report on sole source contracts awarded 
     during the reporting period to small business concerns owned 
     and controlled by women, HUBZone small business concerns (as 
     defined in section 31(b)), and small business concerns owned 
     and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
       ``(B) Each report required under subparagraph (A) shall, 
     for each small business concern described in that 
     subparagraph that was awarded a sole source contract during 
     the reporting period--
       ``(i) include the dollar amount and number of sole source 
     contracts awarded to the small business concern;
       ``(ii) specify the North American Industry Classification 
     System code assigned to the small business concern; and
       ``(iii) provide the aggregate amount awarded to the small 
     business concern under a sole source contract awarded on or 
     after the date of enactment of this paragraph.''.
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