S.Amdt. 884

SA 884. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 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 D of title VI, add the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF SENATE ON THE USE BY EXCHANGE STORES OF
SMALL BUSINESSES AS SUPPLIERS.

(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) Exchange stores, as non-appropriated fund
instrumentalities of the Department of Defense, are not
required to give any preference to particular vendors or
suppliers.
(2) Even so, exchange stores are uniquely positioned to
feature products from small businesses, especially veteran-
owned small businesses.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate to urge
the Department to work with the military exchange services to
develop strategies for featuring products of small
businesses, particularly products of veteran-owned small
businesses, in military exchange stores.
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