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Calendar No. 352
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-454
SUPPORT STARTUP BUSINESSES ACT OF 2018
DECEMBER 21, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. RISCH, from the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2419]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, to
which was referred the bill (S. 2419) to amend the Small Business
Act to improve the technical and business assistance services under
the SBIR and STTR programs, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute
and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Support Startup Businesses Act of 2018 (S. 2419) was intro-
duced by Senator Christopher A. Coons, for himself, and Senator
Cory Gardner on February 13, 2018.
This bill as introduced increased the discretionary technical as-
sistance funding to Small Business Innovation Research Program
and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) awardees
from $5,000 a year per award to 5% of the award. It broadened the
uses of the funds to include business assistance, such as services
for intellectual property (IP) protections, market research, and de-
velopment of regulatory and manufacturing plans. It expanded the
number of vendors an SBIR agency or a participant could select to
provide the technical or business-related assistance services, and
allowed vendors to be private or public, or a state-funded agency
that specializes in commercializing technology. Finally, it directed
the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to
submit a report reviewing the efficacy of the technical and business
assistance.
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