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Version 36 · Passed House amended · Sep 27, 1999
Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 1999 - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act concerning the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (a program providing a portion of Federal research and development funding to small businesses) to: (1) extend the SBIR until September 30, 2007; (2) require an annual SBIR report to be submitted to the House Committee on Science; (3) require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to revise certain SBIR policy directives concerning funding awards; and (4) direct each Federal agency required to establish a Small Business Technology Transfer Program to include in its annual performance plan a section on its SBIR.(Sec. 8) Directs each Federal agency required to establish an SBIR program to collect and include in a required report certain SBIR program output and outcome data. Directs the Administrator to develop, maintain, and make available to the public an electronic data base: (1) of first and second phase awardees under the SBIR program; and (2) for SBIR program evaluation.(Sec. 9) Directs the Administrator to modify SBA policy directives to: (1) authorize SBIR awards in excess of amounts, or for longer than periods, currently permitted; and (2) require a commercial plan with each application for an SBIR second phase award.(Sec. 11) Requires the heads of each Federal agency with FY 1999 SBIR budgets in excess of $65 million to cooperatively enter into an agreement with the National Research Council for a comprehensive study of the manner in which the SBIR program has stimulated technological innovation and used small businesses to meet Federal research and development needs. Requires study results to be submitted to specified congressional committees.
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Rep. Talent, Jim [R-MO-2] · R–MO
Legislative record
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Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA 4286) by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9631-9642; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S9631-9639)
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA 4286) by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9631-9642; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S9631-9639)
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment.
House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 590.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment pursuant to H. Res. 590.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S7285-7293; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S7285-7287)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 541.
Committee on Small Business. Reported to Senate by Senator Bond with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-289.
Committee on Small Business. Reported to Senate by Senator Bond with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-289.
Committee on Small Business. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8763)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8763)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2392.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8762-8767)
Mrs. Kelly moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 193.
Committee on Science discharged.
Committee on Science discharged.
House Committee on Science Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Sept. 23, 1999.
Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 106-329, Part I.
Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 106-329, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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