S.Amdt. 2941

SA 2941. Mr. KAINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 855. FUNDING FOR PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
AGREEMENTS.

(a) Establishing Parity of Funding Assistance for Native
American APEX Accelerators.--Section 4955(a) of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``$1,000,000'' and
inserting ``$1,500,000''.
(b) Authority to Transfer Funds for Implementation of
Program Assistance Agreements.--Section 4955 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the
following new subsection:
``(e) Authority to Transfer Funds for Implementation of
Program Assistance Agreement.--Funds appropriated pursuant to
this section for a Department of Defense Procurement
Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (otherwise
referred to as an APEX Accelerator program) may be
transferred to any other appropriation solely for the purpose
of implementing a Procurement Technical Assistance
Cooperative Agreement Program assistance agreement pursuant
to section 1241 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1985 (Public Law 98-525), as amended, under the
authority of this provision or any other transfer
authority.''.
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