To require a report on Federal agency compliance with respect to establishing an Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

SA 3633. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, making
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __.  The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration shall--
(1) work with Federal agencies to review each Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization's efforts to
comply with the requirements under section 15(k) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(k)); and
(2) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, submit to the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives--
(A) a report on Federal agency compliance with the
requirements under such section 15(k); and
(B) a report detailing the status of issuance by the Small
Business Administration of detailed guidance for the peer
review process of the Small Business Procurement Advisory
Council in order to facilitate a more in depth review of
Federal agency compliance with the requirements under such
section 15(k).
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