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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4727 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a mentor-prote´ge´ 
program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 17, 2019 
Mr. MCEACHIN (for himself and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
a mentor-prote´ge´ program, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY MENTOR- 
PROTE´ GE´ PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 890B. MENTOR-PROTE´ GE´ PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Department a mentor-prote´ge´ program (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘Program’) under which a mentor firm 
enters into an agreement with a prote´ge´ firm for the pur-
pose of assisting the prote´ge´ firm to compete for prime 
contracts and subcontracts of the Department. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—The Secretary shall establish cri-
teria for mentor firms and prote´ge´ firms to be eligible to 
participate in the Program, including a requirement that 
a firm is not included on any list maintained by the Fed-
eral Government of contractors that have been suspended 
or debarred. 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM APPLICATION AND APPROVAL.— 
‘‘(1) APPLICATION.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Office of Small and Disadvantaged 
Business Utilization of the Department, shall estab-
lish a process for submission of an application joint-
ly by a mentor firm and the prote´ge´ firm selected by 
the mentor firm. The application shall include each 
of the following: 
‘‘(A) A description of the assistance to be 
provided by the mentor firm, including, to the 
extent available, the number and a brief de-
scription of each anticipated subcontract to be 
awarded to the prote´ge´ firm. 
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‘‘(B) A schedule with milestones for 
achieving the assistance to be provided over the 
period of participation in the Program. 
‘‘(C) An estimate of the costs to be in-
curred by the mentor firm for providing assist-
ance under the Program. 
‘‘(D) Attestation that Program partici-
pants will submit to the Secretary reports at 
times specified by the Secretary to assist the 
Secretary in evaluating the prote´ge´ firm’s devel-
opmental progress. 
‘‘(E) Attestations that Program partici-
pants will inform the Secretary in the event of 
change in eligibility or voluntary withdrawal 
from the Program. 
‘‘(2) APPROVAL.—Not later than 60 days after 
receipt of an application pursuant to paragraph (1), 
the head of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged 
Business Utilization shall notify applicants of ap-
proval or, in the case of disapproval, the process for 
resubmitting an application for reconsideration. 
‘‘(3) RESCISSION.—The head of the Office of 
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization may 
rescind the approval of an application under this 
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ness concern owned and controlled by service-dis-
abled veterans’, ‘qualified HUBZone small business 
concern’, and ‘small business concern owned and 
controlled by women’ have the meaning given such 
terms, respectively, under section 3 of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632). The term ‘small busi-
ness concern owned and controlled by socially and 
economically disadvantaged individuals’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 8(d)(3)(C) of 
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(3)(C)).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
890A the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 890B. Mentor-prote´ge´ program.’’. 
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