SBIR Expansion and Accountability Act of 2019

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 2141 To amend the Small Business Act to supplement the reporting requirements applicable to the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JULY 17, 2019 Mr. MARKEY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship A BILL To amend the Small Business Act to supplement the report- ing requirements applicable to the Small Business Ad- ministration, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SBIR Expansion and 4 Accountability Act of 2019’’. 5 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT. 6 (a) GOALS OF THE SBIR PROGRAM.—Section 9(a) 7 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(a)) is amended 8 by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Additionally, it is the 9 sense of Congress that the goals of the Small Business 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Jul 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2141.IS S2141 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 2141 IS Innovation Research Program are to stimulate techno- 1 logical innovation, meet Federal research and development 2 needs, foster and encourage participation in innovation 3 and entrepreneurship by women and socially or economi- 4 cally disadvantaged individuals, and increase private-sec- 5 tor commercialization of innovations derived from Federal 6 research and development funding.’’. 7 (b) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Section 9(b) of 8 the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(b)) is amended— 9 (1) in paragraph (7)— 10 (A) in subparagraph (F), by striking 11 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 12 (B) in subparagraph (G), by adding ‘‘and’’ 13 at the end; and 14 (C) by adding at the end the following: 15 ‘‘(H) with respect to a Federal agency to 16 which subsection (f)(1) or (n)(1) applies, wheth- 17 er the Federal agency has satisfied the require- 18 ment under each applicable subsection for the 19 year covered by the report;’’; 20 (2) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 21 end; 22 (3) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at 23 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 24 (4) by adding at the end the following: 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Jul 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2141.IS S2141 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •S 2141 IS ‘‘(10) with respect to a Federal agency to which 1 subsection (f)(1) or (n)(1) applies and that the Ad- 2 ministration determines has not satisfied the re- 3 quirement under either applicable subsection, require 4 the head of that Federal agency to submit to the 5 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 6 of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business 7 of the House of Representatives a report regarding 8 why the Federal agency has not satisfied the re- 9 quirement.’’. 10 (c) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THE OFFICE OF 11 INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION.—Section 9(mm) of the 12 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(mm)) is amended— 13 (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding 14 subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and 15 inserting ‘‘paragraphs (3) and (4)’’; 16 (2) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and 17 (6) as paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively; and 18 (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol- 19 lowing: 20 ‘‘(4) TRANSFER TO OFFICE OF INVESTMENT 21 AND INNOVATION.—Of the amount that a Federal 22 agency allocates for uses under paragraph (1), the 23 agency shall transfer 5 percent of that amount to 24 the Office of Investment and Innovation of the Ad- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Jul 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2141.IS S2141 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •S 2141 IS ministration, which the Office shall use to carry out 1 the functions of the Office.’’. 2 SEC. 3. INCLUSION OF FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRA- 3 TION IN THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION 4 RESEARCH PROGRAM AND SMALL BUSINESS 5 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM. 6 Section 40101(d)(2)(D) of title 49, United States 7 Code, is amended to read as follows: 8 ‘‘(D) The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 9 631 et seq.), except that— 10 ‘‘(i) section 9 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 11 638) shall apply; and 12 ‘‘(ii) all reasonable opportunities to be 13 awarded contracts shall be provided to 14 small business concerns and small business 15 concerns owned and controlled by socially 16 and economically disadvantaged individ- 17 uals.’’. 18 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Jul 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S2141.IS S2141 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS