S.Amdt. 2098

SA 2098. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 10__. PLAIN LANGUAGE IN CONTRACTING.

(a) Accessibility and Clarity in Covered Notices for Small
Business Concerns.--
(1) In general.--Each covered notice shall be written--
(A) in a manner that is clear, concise, and accessible to a
small business concern; and
(B) in a manner consistent, to the extent practicable, with
the Federal plain language guidelines established pursuant to
the Plain Writing Act of 2010 (5 U.S.C. 301 note).
(2) Inclusion of key words in covered notices.--Each
covered notice shall, to the maximum extent practicable,
include key words in the description of the covered notice
such that a small business concern seeking contract
opportunities using the single governmentwide point of entry
described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code,
can easily identify and understand such covered notice.
(3) Rulemaking.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this section, the Administrator of the Small
Business Administration shall issue rules to carry out this
subsection.
(4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
(A) Covered notice.--The term ``covered notice'' means a
notice pertaining to small business concerns published by a
Federal agency on the single governmentwide point of entry
described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code.
(B) Small business act definitions.--The terms ``Federal
agency'' and ``small business concern'' have the meanings
given those terms, respectively, in section 3 of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
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