S.Amdt. 266

SA 266. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 appropriate place in title VIII, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. PERMANENT SBIR AND STTR AUTHORITY FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (m), by inserting ``, except with respect
to the Department of Defense'' after ``September 30, 2022'';
and
(2) in subsection (n)(1)(A)--
(A) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of
Defense, any fiscal year)'' after ``2022''; and
(B) by inserting ``(or, with respect to the Department of
Defense, for any fiscal year)'' after ``for that fiscal
year''.
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