S.Amdt. 2384

SA 2384. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. __. PERMANENCY OF SBIR AND STTR PROGRAMS.

(a) SBIR.--Section 9(m) of the Small Business Act (15
U.S.C. 638(m)) is amended--
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Termination''
and inserting ``SBIR Program Authorization''; and
(2) by striking ``terminate on September 30, 2022'' and
inserting ``be in effect for each fiscal year''.
(b) STTR.--Section 9(n)(1)(A) of the Small Business Act (15
U.S.C. 638(n)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``through fiscal
year 2022''.
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