S.Amdt. 2597

SA 2597. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina submitted an amendment intended
to be proposed to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the
bill S. 178, to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic
Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention,
torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DIRECT APPROPRIATION TO MBDA.

(a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``small business
concern'' has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
(b) Appropriation.--There is appropriated, out of amounts
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2020, $10,000,000 under the heading
``Department of Commerce--Minority Business Development
Agency'' for minority business centers of the Minority
Business Development Agency of the Department of Commerce to
provide technical assistance to small business concerns.
(c) Emergency Designation.--
(1) In general.--The amounts provided under this section
are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2
U.S.C. 933(g)).
(2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section is
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
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