S.Amdt. 145

SA 145. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 X, insert the following:

SEC. 10__. CLARIFICATION THAT FEDERAL LABORATORIES CAN USE
PARTNERSHIP INTERMEDIARIES FOR TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER FUNCTIONS.

Section 23 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation
Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3715) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting ``and transition
functions'' after ``technology transfer''; and
(2) in subsection (c), by inserting ``or who can assist a
Federal laboratory with technology transition, either out of,
or into the Federal laboratory,'' after ``from a Federal
laboratory,''.
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