small business concern during a Phase I or 
Phase II award to reference an SBIR or STTR 
contract identification number for relevant prior 
SBIR or STTR work done. 
(2) NO NEW FUNDS.—No additional funds are 
authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of car-
rying out this subsection. 
SEC. 503. STREAMLINING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), 
as amended by this Act, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (bb)(3), by inserting ‘‘or an-
other component of the same Federal agency’’ after 
‘‘another Federal agency’’; 
(2) in subsection (gg)— 
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘PILOT 
PROGRAM’’ and inserting ‘‘COMMERCIALIZA-
TION READINESS PROGRAM’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘pilot’’ each place the term 
appears; 
(C) by striking paragraph (7); 
(D) by redesignating paragraph (8) as 
paragraph (7); and 
(E) by amending paragraph (7), as so re-
designated, to read as follows: 
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‘‘(7) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘covered Federal agency’— 
‘‘(A) means a Federal agency participating 
in the SBIR program or the STTR program; 
and 
‘‘(B) does not include the Department of 
Defense.’’; 
(3) in subsection (hh)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘FUNDING.—’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘Federal agencies partici-
pating’’ and inserting ‘‘FUNDING.—Federal 
agencies participating’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (2); 
(4) in subsection (ii)(2)(B)— 
(A) in clause (ii), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(B) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a period; and 
(C) by striking clause (iv); 
(5) in subsection (qq)(3), by striking subpara-
graph (I); 
(6) in subsection (vv)(3), by striking subpara-
graph (C); 
(7) in subsection (yy)— 
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(A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘PILOT’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘STTR PROGRAM.—’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘Not later than’’ and 
inserting ‘‘STTR PROGRAM.—Not later than’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(D) by striking ‘‘pilot’’; and 
(8) in subsection (zz)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘PILOT’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘PILOT’’ and inserting ‘‘PROGRAM’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘3.25’’ and inserting ‘‘3.50’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘0.46’’ and inserting ‘‘0.21’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (3); and 
(D) by striking ‘‘pilot’’ each place the term 
appears. 
SEC. 504. EXTENDING SBIR AND STTR AUTHORIZATION. 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), 
as amended by this Act, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (m), by striking ‘‘2025’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2028’’; and 
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(2) in subsection (n)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘2025’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2028’’. 
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 601. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 
Section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘small-business concerns’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘small business con-
cerns’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘Committee on Small Business 
of the Senate’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneur-
ship of the Senate’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘Committee on Science and the’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Committee on 
Science, Space, and Technology and the’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)(2), by striking ‘‘small- 
business firms’’ and inserting ‘‘small business con-
cerns’’; 
(5) in subsection (e)(3), by inserting ‘‘concern’’ 
after ‘‘small business’’; 
(6) in subsection (g)(4)(A), by striking ‘‘SBIR 
proposals’’ and inserting ‘‘SBIR solicitations’’; 
(7) in subsection (g)(10), by striking ‘‘,,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘,’’; 
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(8) in subsection (g)(13)(A), by inserting ‘‘ma-
lign’’ before ‘‘foreign talent recruitment program’’; 
(9) in subsection (o)(8), by striking ‘‘,,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘,’’; 
(10) in subsection (o)(17)(A), by inserting ‘‘ma-
lign’’ before ‘‘foreign talent recruitment program’’; 
and 
(11) in subsection (vv)(2)(B), by inserting 
‘‘subsection’’ before ‘‘(g)(13)’’. 
SEC. 602. REPEALS. 
(a) REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISION.—Subsection 
(tt) of section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(tt)) is repealed. 
(b) REPEAL
OF
REDUNDANT
PROVISION.—Sub-
section (oo) section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 638(oo)) is repealed. 
SEC. 603. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, or the application of such 
provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be in-
valid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of the 
remaining provisions, shall not be affected. 
Æ 
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