A bill to provide, temporarily, authority for the Secretary of Commerce to waive cost sharing requirements for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and for other purposes.
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Introduced
Latest Action · December 15, 2020
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641.
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.
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