S.Amdt. 461

SA 461. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 866. BRIEFING ON THE REDESIGNATION OF NATIONAL SERIAL
NUMBER (NSN) PARTS AS PROPRIETARY.

Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide a briefing
to the congressional defense committees identifying which
National Serial Number (NSN) parts in the Defense Logistics
Agency system have had their designation changed to
proprietary over the previous 5 years, including a
description of which parts were, or continue to be, produced
by small businesses before the proprietary designation was
applied, and the justification for the changes in
designation.
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