S.Amdt. 2453

SA 2453. Mrs. SHAHEEN 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. INCREASE IN GOVERNMENTWIDE GOALS FOR PROCUREMENT
CONTRACTS AWARDED TO SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.

Section 15(g)(1)(A)(i) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
644(g)(1)(A)(i)) is amended by striking ``23 percent'' and
inserting ``25 percent''.
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