S.Amdt. 4094

SA 4094. Mr. INHOFE (for himself and Mr. Markey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 B of title II, add the following:

SEC. 221. MICRO-PURCHASE THRESHOLD FOR UNIVERSITIES,
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES, AND NON-PROFIT
RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS.

Section 1902 of title 41, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), as amended by section 215(b)--

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(A) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Except as provided'';
(B) by inserting ``and paragraph (2)'' after ``section 2338
of title 10''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) For purposes of this section, the micro-purchase
threshold for procurement activities administered under
sections 6303 through 6305 of title 31, United States Code,
by institutions of higher education (as defined in section
101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1001(a)), or related or affiliated nonprofit entities, or by
nonprofit research organizations or independent research
institutes is--
``(A) $10,000; or
``(B) such higher threshold as determined appropriate by
the head of the relevant executive agency and consistent with
clean audit findings under chapter 75 of title 31, United
States Code, internal institutional risk assessment, or State
law.''; and
(2) in subsections (d) and (e), by striking ``not greater
than $3,000'' and inserting ``with a price not greater than
the micro-purchase threshold''.
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