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S 4719 116th Congress Senate Commerce Appropriations Industrial policy and productivity Manufacturing Technology transfer and commercialization

Helping Manufacturers Respond to COVID–19 Act of 2020

Introduced: September 24, 2020 Introduced by: Peters, Gary C. Democratic · Michigan See on congress.gov
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Dec 15, 2020
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641.
Dec 15, 2020
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Nov 18, 2020
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Sep 24, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Sep 24, 2020
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Manufacturers Respond to COVID-19 Act of 2020

This bill authorizes the Department of Commerce to use amounts appropriated for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program for FY2021 to provide more than 50% of the capital and annual operating and maintenance funds to establish and support a manufacturing extension center that is unable to meet cost share requirements due to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Under current law, this provision of funding is capped at 50%.

A manufacturing extension center works to transfer manufacturing technology and best business practices.

What's happening now December 15, 2020

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641.

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