To amend the Small Business Act to provide for an increase in the amount of awards under the first and second phases of the Small Business Innovation Research program.

Amends the Small Business Act relating to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (a program under which a portion of a federal agency's research or research and development funds are reserved for award to small businesses) to require certain program directives issued for the general conduct of SBIR programs within the federal government to provide, among other things, that an agency may increase to specified levels amounts awarded in the first and second phases of the SBIR Program.

Requires such amounts be adjusted once every five years to reflect economic adjustments and programmatic considerations.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4213 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4213

   To amend the Small Business Act to provide for an increase in the 
    amount of awards under the first and second phases of the Small 
                 Business Innovation Research program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2007

  Mr. Cramer 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Small Business Act to provide for an increase in the 
    amount of awards under the first and second phases of the Small 
                 Business Innovation Research program.

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

SECTION 1. INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF AWARDS UNDER SBIR PROGRAM.

    (a) Increase Required.--Section 9(j) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 638(j)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (D) and redesignating 
                subparagraphs (E) through (I) as subparagraphs (D) 
                through (H), respectively; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (H), as so redesignated, by 
                striking ``subparagraph (H)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (G)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) Amount of Awards.--The program directives issued pursuant to 
this subsection shall provide that an agency may award an amount of not 
more than $149,000 in the first phase of an SBIR program and an amount 
of not more than $1,115,000 in the second phase of an SBIR program. 
Such amounts shall be adjusted once every 5 years to reflect economic 
adjustments and programmatic considerations.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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