[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5995]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3260. Mr. BUDD (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand) 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. EXPANDING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
                   AGREEMENTS TO PARTNERSHIPS WITH UNITED STATES 
                   TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

       Section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation 
     Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking``State or local 
     government'' and inserting ``State, local, or territorial 
     government''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(h) Territorial Governments.--For the purposes of this 
     section, the government of a territory of the United States 
     shall be considered a non-Federal party.''.
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