[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5220]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2941. Mr. KAINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 855. FUNDING FOR PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 
                   AGREEMENTS.

       (a) Establishing Parity of Funding Assistance for Native 
     American APEX Accelerators.--Section 4955(a) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by striking ``$1,000,000'' and 
     inserting ``$1,500,000''.
       (b) Authority to Transfer Funds for Implementation of 
     Program Assistance Agreements.--Section 4955 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(e) Authority to Transfer Funds for Implementation of 
     Program Assistance Agreement.--Funds appropriated pursuant to 
     this section for a Department of Defense Procurement 
     Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (otherwise 
     referred to as an APEX Accelerator program) may be 
     transferred to any other appropriation solely for the purpose 
     of implementing a Procurement Technical Assistance 
     Cooperative Agreement Program assistance agreement pursuant 
     to section 1241 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1985 (Public Law 98-525), as amended, under the 
     authority of this provision or any other transfer 
     authority.''.
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