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Union Calendar No. 744 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6368 
[Report No. 115–956, Part I] 
To encourage R&D small business set-asides, to encourage SBIR and STTR 
participants to serve as mentors under the Small Business Administra-
tion’s mentor-protege program, to promote the use of interagency con-
tracts, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 13, 2018 
Mr. ESPAILLAT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Over-
sight and Government Reform, and Science, Space, and Technology, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. NORMAN, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Miss GONZA´LEZ- 
COLO´N of Puerto Rico 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Small Business 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 
Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Science, Space, and 
Technology discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To encourage R&D small business set-asides, to encourage 
SBIR and STTR participants to serve as mentors under 
the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege pro-
gram, to promote the use of interagency contracts, and 
for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Encouraging Small 
Business Innovators’’. 
SEC. 2. INCLUDING TESTING AND EVALUATION IN THE 
DEFINITION OF R&D. 
Section 9(e)(5) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(e)(5)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 
and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively; 
(2) by striking ‘‘means any activity’’ and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘means— 
‘‘(A) any activity’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘and 
‘‘(B) any testing or evaluation in connec-
tion with such an activity;’’. 
SEC. 3. ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN THE MENTOR- 
PROTEGE PROGRAM. 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(tt) ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION IN THE MEN-
TOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall pro-
vide an increase to the past performance rating of any 
small business concern that has participated in the SBIR 
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or STTR program that serves as a mentor under section 
45 to a small business concern that seeks to participate 
in the SBIR or STTR program.’’. 
SEC. 4. PROMOTING THE USE OF GOVERNMENT-WIDE AND 
OTHER INTERAGENCY CONTRACTS. 
(a) PROMOTING INTERAGENCY ACQUISITIONS.—Sec-
tion 865 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘all interagency acquisi-
tions’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by adding ‘‘all interagency assisted 
acquisitions’’ before ‘‘include’’; and 
(ii) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(C) by striking subparagraph (B); 
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (B); 
(E) in subparagraph (B), as so redesig-
nated, by adding ‘‘all interagency assisted ac-
quisitions’’ before ‘‘include’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 
following: 
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‘‘(5) The term ‘assisted acquisition’ means a 
type of interagency acquisition where a servicing 
agency performs acquisition activities on a request-
ing agency’s behalf, such as awarding and admin-
istering a contract, task order, or delivery order.’’. 
(b) GSA ASSISTANCE WITH CERTAIN SMALL BUSI-
NESS CONTRACT AWARDS.— 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638), as amended by section 4, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(uu) GSA ASSISTANCE WITH CERTAIN SMALL 
BUSINESS CONTRACT AWARDS.—The Administrator of 
the General Services Administration may assist another 
agency with the process of awarding a contract to a small 
business concern under the SBIR or STTR program or 
under a small business set-aside.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 744 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6368 
[Report No. 115–956, Part I] 
A BILL 
To encourage R&D small business set-asides, to en-
courage SBIR and STTR participants to serve as 
mentors under the Small Business Administra-
tion’s mentor-protege program, to promote the 
use of interagency contracts, and for other pur-
poses. 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Small Business 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 
Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 
Science, Space, and Technology discharged; committed 
to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
the Union and ordered to be printed 
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