S.Amdt. 2614

SA 2614. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr.
McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 I of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 896. ANNUAL REPORT ON ADVERTISING SPENDING ON SOCIALLY
AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS
CONTRACTORS.

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
estimating the portion of the of the Department of Defense's
advertising budget that is spent on advertising and public
relations contracts with socially and economically
disadvantaged small businesses and women, low-income, veteran
(as that term is defined in section 3(q) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)), and minority entrepreneurs
and business owners at the prime and subcontracting levels.
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