S.Amdt. 5592

SA 5592. Ms. SNOWE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 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:

On page 311, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following:

SEC. 1083. MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM FOR SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS.

The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall establish a mentor-protege program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)), modeled on the mentor-protege program of the Small Business Administration for small businesses participating in programs under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)). Any funds authorized or appropriated for the program under this section shall supplement and not supplant funds available for any mentor-protege program that is in operation on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.