S.Amdt. 5870

SA 5870. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 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 III add the following:

SEC. 358. ADVANCED NOTIFICATION TO CONGRESS ON USE OF
PROPRIETARY LABELS.

(a) In General.--The Director of the Defense Logistics
Agency shall submit to the congressional defense committees a
notification--
(1) before procuring a new item with a national stock
number having an original listing as proprietary, which shall
include--
(A) a justification as to why the labeling of the item as
proprietary is warranted; and
(B) the price point for the item and a comparison to a
similar item that is not proprietary; and
(2) before a national stock number has its characteristics
data updated to proprietary, which shall include--
(A) a justification as to why such update is warranted;
(B) the price point for the item and a comparison to a
similar item that is not proprietary; and
(C) the change in cost per unit for procurement of the
proprietary item.

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(b) Annual Report.--Not less frequently than annually, the
Director shall submit to Congress a report on the year over
year use of proprietary labels by the Department of Defense
and the associated price increases for use of such labels.
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