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Calendar No. 35
119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION S. 99
[Report No. 119–9]
To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides
recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact
of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience
and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY15, 2025
Mr. P
ETERS(for himself and Mrs. BLACKBURN) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation
M
ARCH31, 2025
Reported by Mr. C
RUZ, without amendment
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report
that provides recommendations to improve the effective-
ness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce
programs related to supply chain resilience and manufac-
turing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening Support 2
for American Manufacturing Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 4
In this Act: 5
(1) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -6
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-7
gress’’ means— 8
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 9
and Transportation of the Senate; and 10
(B) the Committee on Energy and Com-11
merce of the House of Representatives. 12
(2) C
OVERED OFFICES AND BUREAUS .—The 13
term ‘‘covered offices and bureaus’’ means offices 14
and bureaus of the Department of Commerce identi-15
fied under section 3(a)(1). 16
(3) C
RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN.—The term ‘‘crit-17
ical supply chain’’ means an end-to-end system that 18
converts raw materials into finished products in crit-19
ical sectors, including in— 20
(A) the defense industrial base; 21
(B) the public health and biological pre-22
paredness industrial base; 23
(C) the information and communications 24
technology industrial base; 25
(D) the energy sector industrial base; 26
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(E) the transportation industrial base; and 1
(F) agricultural supply chains. 2
(4) C
RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE .—The 3
term ‘‘critical supply chain resilience’’ means miti-4
gating gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply 5
chains, including by— 6
(A) reducing risk of malicious sabotage or 7
external or internal manipulation; and 8
(B) improving the ability to withstand sup-9
ply chain interruptions such as logistical chal-10
lenges and workforce, materials, equipment, or 11
product shortages. 12
(5) M
ANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVA -13
TION.—The term ‘‘manufacturing and industrial in-14
novation’’ means— 15
(A) providing assistance, resources, or 16
services to manufacturers or manufacturing 17
workers in the United States; 18
(B) offering expertise, improvements, re-19
search, and development or other assistance in 20
technological innovations or advanced manufac-21
turing in partnership with or for use by manu-22
facturers in the United States; or 23
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(C) developing policy that substantially im-1
pacts the manufacturing sector in the United 2
States. 3
(6) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 4
the Secretary of Commerce. 5
SEC. 3. STUDY RELATING TO MANUFACTURING PROGRAMS 6
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. 7
(a) A
SSESSMENT.—Not later than 1 year after the 8
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall produce 9
a report that— 10
(1) identifies offices and bureaus of the Depart-11
ment of Commerce with responsibilities related to— 12
(A) critical supply chain resilience; and 13
(B) manufacturing and industrial innova-14
tion; 15
(2) identifies the duties, responsibilities, pro-16
grams, and expertise relevant to critical supply chain 17
resilience and manufacturing and industrial innova-18
tion of each covered office and bureau; 19
(3) identifies and assesses the purpose, statu-20
tory authority, effectiveness, efficiency, and limita-21
tions of each covered office and bureau; 22
(4) identifies gaps between offices with duplica-23
tive duties, responsibilities, programs, and expertise 24
within the Department of Commerce that are imple-25
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menting activities related to critical supply chain re-1
silience and manufacturing and industrial innova-2
tion; and 3
(5) provides recommendations to improve the 4
effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of each covered 5
office and bureau, including recommendations to— 6
(A) optimize operations within or across 7
covered offices and bureaus; 8
(B) improve coordination across covered 9
offices and bureaus; and 10
(C) improve coordination with Federal 11
agencies implementing similar activities related 12
to critical supply chain resilience and manufac-13
turing and industrial innovation. 14
(b) N
ATIONALACADEMY OFPUBLICADMINISTRA-15
TION.—The Secretary shall contract with the National 16
Academy of Public Administration in producing the report 17
under subsection (a). 18
(c) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 19
on which the Secretary produces the report under sub-20
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 21
committees of Congress— 22
(1) the report produced under subsection (a); 23
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(2) recommendations for potential legislative ac-1
tion addressing recommendations in the report pro-2
duced under subsection (a); and 3
(3) a response from the Secretary to the rec-4
ommendations included in the report produced under 5
subsection (a). 6
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119
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
S. 99
[Report No. 119–9]
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce
a report that provides recommendations to im-
prove the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of
Department of Commerce programs related to
supply chain resilience and manufacturing and
industrial innovation, and for other purposes.
M
ARCH
31, 2025
Reported without amendment
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