Require research grant money to be spent in the United States
What the document says“Ensure the enactment of stricter rules requiring that SBIR funds must be expended on capital investments in the United States.”
The research programs direct a fixed share of federal research spending to small firms: 3.2 percent of extramural research budgets at larger agencies, and a further 0.45 percent under a related program. The chapter says research has shown that this small share of federal research spending is disproportionately effective.
What the document actually says“Ensure the enactment of stricter rules requiring that SBIR funds must be expended on capital investments in the United States.”
This grant money must be spent here at home.
The government funds research at small firms. The book says that money should be spent here. It should not go abroad.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Public Law 119-83 extends the SBIR and STTR programs and adds a security screen: agencies must evaluate whether an applicant presents a security risk, may deny an award for a tie to an entity on any of eight named lists, and must assess foreign ownership and the financial ties of a firm and its employees to a foreign country. It acts on foreign exposure in the same programs, but it never requires that award money be spent on capital investments in the United States, which is what the proposal asks for. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.