S.Amdt. 3260

SA 3260. Mr. BUDD (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand) 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. __. EXPANDING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
AGREEMENTS TO PARTNERSHIPS WITH UNITED STATES
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

Section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation
Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking``State or local
government'' and inserting ``State, local, or territorial
government''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(h) Territorial Governments.--For the purposes of this
section, the government of a territory of the United States
shall be considered a non-Federal party.''.
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