Title: To make improvements to the Mentor-Protégé Program of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill revises the Department of Defense Mentor-Protege Program, under which disadvantaged small business concerns are assisted in participation as federal contractors.
The bill permanently authorizes the program and removes its pilot designation, requires the establishment of performance goals, and modifies the definition of a business for purposes of the program, allowing it to be up to the size standard according to its primary North American Industry Classification System code.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3087 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3087

To make improvements to the Mentor-Protege Program of the Department of 
                    Defense, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2019

   Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself and Mr. Turner) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To make improvements to the Mentor-Protege Program of the Department of 
                    Defense, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
              MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM.

    (a) Permanent Authorization.--Section 831 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 
2302 note) is amended by striking subsection (j).
    (b) Office of Small Business Programs Oversight.--Section 831 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 
101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (n) as subsection (o); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (m) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(n) Establishment of Performance Goals and Periodic Reviews.--The 
Office of Small Business Programs of the Department of Defense shall--
            ``(1) establish performance goals consistent with the 
        stated purpose of the Mentor-Protege Program and outcome-based 
        metrics to measure progress in meeting those goals; and
            ``(2) submit to the congressional defense committees, not 
        later than February 1, 2020, a report on progress made toward 
        implementing these performance goals and metrics, based on 
        periodic reviews of the procedures used to approve mentor-
        protege agreements.''.
    (c) Modification of Disadvantaged Small Business Concern 
Definition.--Subsection (o)(2) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as 
redesignated by subsection (b)(1) of this section, is amended by 
striking ``has less than half the size standard corresponding to its 
primary North American Industry Classification System code'' and 
inserting ``is not more than the size standard corresponding to its 
primary North American Industry Classification System code''.
    (d) Removal of Pilot Program References.--Section 831 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 
101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading for subsection (a), by 
        striking ``Pilot''; and
            (2) by striking ``pilot'' each place it appears.
    (e) Independent Report on Program Effectiveness.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall direct the 
        Defense Business Board to submit to the congressional defense 
        committees a report evaluating the effectiveness of the Mentor-
        Protege Program established under section 831 of the National 
        Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-
        510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), including recommendations for 
        improving the program in terms of performance metrics, forms of 
        assistance, and overall program effectiveness not later than 
        March 31, 2022.
            (2) Congressional defense committees defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term ``congressional defense committees'' has 
        the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, 
        United States Code.
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