To remove the limit on the anticipated award price for contracts awarded under the procurement program for women-owned small business concerns.

SA 3218. Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Ms. Landrieu, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Mikulski, and Mr. Kirk) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 3254, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 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. 847. CONTRACTING WITH SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY WOMEN.

(a) Procurement Program for Women-owned Small Business Concerns.--Section 8(m)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(m)(2)) is amended--

(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking “who are economically disadvantaged”;

(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking “paragraph (3)” and inserting “paragraph (4)”;

(3) by striking subparagraph (D); and

(4) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as subparagraphs (D) and (E), respectively.

(b) Study and Report on Representation of Women.--Section 29 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 656) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(o) Study and Report on Representation of Women.--

“(1) Study.--The Administrator shall periodically conduct a study to identify industries, as defined under the North American Industry Classification System, underrepresented by small business concerns owned and controlled by women.

“(2) Report.--Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, and every 5 years thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report on the results of each study under paragraph (1) conducted during the 5-year period ending on the date of the report.”.