S.Amdt. 2321

SA 2321. Ms. HIRONO 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 D of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 865. EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN CONTRACTS.

(a) Competitive Thresholds.--Section 8018 of title VIII of
division A of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2007 (15 U.S.C. 637 note) is amended by striking ``with
agencies of the Department of Defense'' and inserting ``with
agencies and departments of the Federal Government''.
(b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, in order to carry out the amendments
made by subsection (a)--
(1) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration,
in consultation with the Administrator for Federal
Procurement Policy, shall promulgate regulations; and
(2) the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council established
under section 1302(a) of title 41, United States Code, shall
amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
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