Title: Defense Small Business Advancement Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Defense Small Business Advancement Act of 2019
This bill permanently reauthorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) Mentor-Protege Program, designed to help major defense contractors facilitate the participation of disadvantaged small business concerns as subcontractors and suppliers.
The DOD Office of Small Business Programs shall establish performance goals and conduct periodic reviews of approved agreements between mentors and proteges.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1320 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1320

  To reauthorize and improve the Department of Defense Mentor-Protege 
                                Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 2019

Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Ms. Ernst) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reauthorize and improve the Department of Defense Mentor-Protege 
                                Program.

    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 ``Defense Small Business Advancement 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. 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 
establish performance goals and conduct periodic reviews of approved 
agreements between mentors and proteges.''.
    (c) 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.
    (d) Independent Report on Program Effectiveness.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than March 31, 2022, an 
        independent third party selected by the Department of Defense 
        Office of Small Business Programs shall 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.
            (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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