S.Amdt. 1542

SA 1542. Ms. SNOWE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 237, after line 12, insert the following:

SEC. 846. BATTLEFIELD SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTORS.

Section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632) is amended by adding at the end:

“(s) Battlefield Small Business Contractors.--

“(1) In general.--The Administrator shall--

“(A) not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, promulgate a regulation or issue an order excluding receipts received by a small business concern as reimbursements for security services related to business operations of such small business concern under any Federal contract or subcontract performed in a qualified area from applicable size standards; and

“(B) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, submit a report to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives concerning the desirability and feasability of providing any other size standards exemptions for small business concerns working under Federal contracts or subcontracts in a qualified area.

“(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term ‘qualified area' means--

“(A) Iraq,

“(B) Afghanistan, and

“(C) any foreign country which included a combat zone, as that term is defined in section 112(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, at the time of performance of the relevant Federal contract or subcontract.”.