S.Amdt. 2797

SA 2797. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr.
McCain) 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 LIST OF SBIR AWARDS.

Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(tt) Annual List of Low Participation States.--Each
Federal agency participating in the SBIR program shall submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress (as defined in
subsection (nn)(3)(C)) an annual report that includes, for
the preceding 12-month period--
``(1) a list of the number of SBIR awards provided to small
business concerns in each State; and
``(2) a plan to increase the number of SBIR awards provided
to small business concerns located in the 10 States listed
under paragraph (1) with the lowest number of SBIR awards.''.
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