Title: SBIR Expansion and Accountability Act of 2019
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
SBIR Expansion and Accountability Act of 2019
This bill expands the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Specifically, the bill (1) sets forth the specific goals of the SBIR program; (2) requires federal agencies that fail to meet minimum expenditure requirements for the SBIR program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program to report the reasons for their failure; and (3) and requires an agency that has allocated funds to a SBIR program to transfer a specified percentage of such funds to the Office of Investment and Administration of the SBA, which oversees the SBIR program.
In addition, the bill includes the SBIR and STTR programs in the Federal Aviation Administration's acquisition and management system.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2141 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2141

      To amend the Small Business Act to supplement the reporting 
 requirements applicable to the Small Business Administration, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2019

  Mr. Markey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Small Business Act to supplement the reporting 
 requirements applicable to the Small Business Administration, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SBIR Expansion and Accountability 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT.

    (a) Goals of the SBIR Program.--Section 9(a) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 638(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
``Additionally, it is the sense of Congress that the goals of the Small 
Business Innovation Research Program are to stimulate technological 
innovation, meet Federal research and development needs, foster and 
encourage participation in innovation and entrepreneurship by women and 
socially or economically disadvantaged individuals, and increase 
private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal 
research and development funding.''.
    (b) Reporting Requirements.--Section 9(b) of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 638(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (G), by adding ``and'' at the 
                end; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(H) with respect to a Federal agency to which 
                subsection (f)(1) or (n)(1) applies, whether the 
                Federal agency has satisfied the requirement under each 
                applicable subsection for the year covered by the 
                report;'';
            (2) in paragraph (8), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) with respect to a Federal agency to which subsection 
        (f)(1) or (n)(1) applies and that the Administration determines 
        has not satisfied the requirement under either applicable 
        subsection, require the head of that Federal agency to submit 
        to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 
        Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
        Representatives a report regarding why the Federal agency has 
        not satisfied the requirement.''.
    (c) Additional Resources for the Office of Investment and 
Innovation.--Section 9(mm) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(mm)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``paragraph (3)'' and inserting ``paragraphs 
        (3) and (4)'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) as 
        paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) Transfer to office of investment and innovation.--Of 
        the amount that a Federal agency allocates for uses under 
        paragraph (1), the agency shall transfer 5 percent of that 
        amount to the Office of Investment and Innovation of the 
        Administration, which the Office shall use to carry out the 
        functions of the Office.''.

SEC. 3. INCLUSION OF FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION IN THE SMALL 
              BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM AND SMALL BUSINESS 
              TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM.

    Section 40101(d)(2)(D) of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
                    ``(D) The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et 
                seq.), except that--
                            ``(i) section 9 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 638) 
                        shall apply; and
                            ``(ii) all reasonable opportunities to be 
                        awarded contracts shall be provided to small 
                        business concerns and small business concerns 
                        owned and controlled by socially and 
                        economically disadvantaged individuals.''.
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