I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4549 
To authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
make grants to small business concerns to assist the commercialization 
of research developed with funds received under the second phase of 
the Small Business Innovation Research Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 27, 2010 
Mr. TONKO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and 
Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration to make grants to small business concerns 
to assist the commercialization of research developed with 
funds received under the second phase of the Small Busi-
ness Innovation Research Program. 
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 ‘‘Small Business Inno-
vation to Job Creation Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. COMMERCIALIZATION GRANTS TO SMALL BUSI-
NESSES RECEIVING SBIR SECOND PHASE 
FUNDS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the 
Small Business Administration is authorized to make 
grants on a competitive basis to small business concerns 
to assist the commercialization of research developed by 
such small business concerns with funds received under 
the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Re-
search Program. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—The Administrator may only 
award a grant under this section to a small business con-
cern that— 
(1) received second phase funds during fiscal 
year 2007 or 2008, or both; 
(2) continues to meet the criteria for receiving 
second phase funds at the time the grant is award-
ed, except for any such criteria that the Adminis-
trator determines are no longer applicable; 
(3) has obtained from the Federal agency from 
which the small business concern received second 
phase funds a recommendation that the small busi-
ness concern be made a grant under this section; 
(4) has not previously received a grant under 
this section for the commercialization of the same 
research; and 
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(5) submits an application at such time and in 
such form as the Administrator may require, includ-
ing— 
(A) a description of the commercialization 
project for which the small business concern 
will use the grant funds; 
(B) the budget for such project; and 
(C) a certification that the small business 
concern meets the criteria described in para-
graph (2). 
(c) GRANT AMOUNT.—A grant under this section 
shall be in an amount the Administrator, in consultation 
with the Federal agency from which the small business 
concern received second phase funds, considers appro-
priate, but such grant shall not exceed the amount of the 
second phase funds received by such small business con-
cern with respect to the research involved. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Small Business Administration; 
and 
(2) the terms ‘‘Federal agency’’, ‘‘research’’, 
‘‘second phase’’, and ‘‘Small Business Innovation 
Research Program’’ have the meanings given such 
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