[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5178-5179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 285. Mr. ROCKEFELLER submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 493, to reauthorize and improve the SBIR 
and STTR programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       On page 83, strike lines 8 and 9 and insert the following:
       ``(v) the names and titles of the key individuals that will 
     carry out the project, the position each key individual holds 
     in the small business concern, and contact information for 
     each key individual;
       On page 85, strike lines 22 through 24 and insert the 
     following:
     program that has been--
       ``(i) convicted of a fraud-related crime involving funding 
     received under the SBIR program or STTR program; or
       ``(ii) found civilly liable for a fraud-related violation 
     involving funding received under the SBIR program or STTR 
     program.''; and
       On page 89, strike line 18 and all that follows through 
     page 90, line 10, and insert the following:
       ``(A) continue the most recent study under this section 
     relating to the issues described in subparagraphs (A), (B), 
     (C), and (E) of subsection (a)(1);
       ``(B) make recommendations with respect to the issues 
     described in subparagraphs (A), (D), and (E) of subsection 
     (a)(2); and
       On page 95, line 7, strike ``the waste,'' and all that 
     follows through ``2011'' on line 10 and insert ``waste, 
     fraud, and abuse prevention activities''.
       On page 96, line 13, strike the quotation marks and the 
     second period and insert the following:
       ``(4) Coordination with ig.--Each Federal agency shall 
     coordinate the activities funded under subparagraph (E), (F), 
     or (G) of paragraph (1) with their respective Inspectors 
     General, when appropriate, and each Federal agency that 
     allocates more than $50,000,000 to the SBIR program of the 
     Federal agency for a fiscal year may share such funding with 
     its Inspector General when the Inspector General performs 
     such activities.''.
       On page 99, strike lines 17 through 19 and insert the 
     following:
       (1) Amendments required for fraud, waste, and abuse 
     prevention.--Not later
       On page 100, strike line 1 and all that follows through 
     page 102, line 4, and insert the following:
       (2) Content of amendments.--The amendments required under 
     paragraph (1) shall include--
       (A) definitions or descriptions of fraud, waste, and abuse;
       (B) guidelines for the monitoring and oversight of 
     applicants to and recipients of awards under the SBIR program 
     or the STTR program;
       (C) a requirement that each Federal agency that 
     participates in the SBIR program or STTR program include 
     information concerning the method established by the 
     Inspector General of the Federal agency to report fraud, 
     waste, and abuse (including any telephone hotline or Web-
     based platform)--
       (i) on the website of the Federal agency; and

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       (ii) in any solicitation or notice of funding opportunity 
     issued by the Federal agency for the SBIR program or the STTR 
     program; and
       (D) a requirement that each applicant for and small 
     business concern that receives funding under the SBIR program 
     or the STTR program shall certify whether the applicant or 
     small business concern is in compliance with the laws 
     relating to the SBIR program and the STTR program and the 
     conduct guidelines established under the SBIR Policy 
     Directive and the STTR Policy Directive.
       (3) Consultation.--The Administrator shall develop the 
     certification required under paragraph (2)(D) in cooperation 
     with the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
     Efficiency and the Office of Advocacy of the Administration.
       (4) Amendment to inspector general act of 1978.--Section 4 
     of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Each Inspector General of each establishment that is 
     required to participate in the SBIR program or the STTR 
     program under section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
     638) shall cooperate to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in 
     the SBIR program and the STTR program by--
       ``(1) establishing fraud detection indicators;
       ``(2) reviewing regulations and operating procedures of the 
     Federal agencies;
       ``(3) coordinating information sharing between the Federal 
     agencies, to the extent otherwise permitted under Federal 
     law; and
       ``(4) improving the education and training of, and outreach 
     to--
       ``(A) administrators of the SBIR program and the STTR 
     program of each Federal agency;
       ``(B) applicants to the SBIR program or the STTR program; 
     and
       ``(C) recipients of awards under the SBIR program or the 
     STTR program.''.
       On page 102, beginning on line 7, strike ``, and every 3 
     years thereafter,'' and insert ``to establish a baseline of 
     changes made to the program to fight fraud, waste, and abuse, 
     and every 3 years thereafter to evaluate the effectiveness of 
     the agency strategies,''.
       On page 103, strike lines 12 through 19 and insert the 
     following:
       (vi) the extent to which the Inspector General of each 
     Federal agency that participates in the SBIR and STTR program 
     effectively conducts investigations, audits, inspections, and 
     outreach relating to the SBIR and STTR programs of the 
     Federal agency; and
       On page 104, line 10, after ``STTR program'' insert the 
     following: ``, at least 1 Inspector General of a Federal 
     agency with an SBIR program or an STTR program,''.
       On page 107, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following:

     SEC. 316. REDUCING FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE.

       Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, and every 4 years thereafter, the Comptroller General of 
     the United States shall--
       (1) conduct a study of the effectiveness of the government 
     and public databases described in section 9(k) of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k)) in reducing vulnerabilities 
     of the SBIR program and the STTR program to fraud, waste, and 
     abuse, particularly with respect to Federal agencies funding 
     duplicative proposals and business concerns falsifying 
     information in proposals;
       (2) make recommendations with respect to the issues 
     described in paragraph (1); and
       (3) submit to the head of each agency described in section 
     108(a) of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000 (15 
     U.S.C. 638 note), the Committee on Small Business and 
     Entrepreneurship of the Senate, and the Committee on Small 
     Business of the House of Representatives a report regarding 
     the study conducted under paragraph (1) and containing the 
     recommendations described in paragraph (2).
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  SA 286. Mr. INOUYE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 493, to reauthorize and improve the SBIR and STTR 
programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the end of title V, add the following:

     SEC. ___. CONSOLIDATING UNNECESSARY DUPLICATIVE AND 
                   OVERLAPPING GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 
     150 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
     Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall--
       (1) compile a list of Government programs and agencies 
     selected from the Government programs and agencies with 
     duplicative and overlapping missions identified in the March 
     2011 Government Accountability Office report to Congress 
     entitled ``Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in 
     Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue'' 
     (GAO-11-318SP); and
       (2) in accordance with the Congressional Budget and 
     Impoundment Control Act of 1974, submit to Congress 
     recommended amounts of rescissions of budget authority for 
     Government programs and agencies on that list.

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