119-hr5191

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5191 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5191

 To direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
 to issue guidance for private entities on demonstrating how biobased 
 products meet Department of Defense requirements, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 September 8, 2025

 Mr. Khanna (for himself, Mr. Garamendi, and Mr. Davis of North 
 Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Armed Services

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 A BILL

 To direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
 to issue guidance for private entities on demonstrating how biobased 
 products meet Department of Defense requirements, and for other 
 purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ESTABLISHING BIOBASED PRODUCT MERIT GUIDANCE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military 
departments (as defined in 

section 101

    (a) of title 10, United States 
Code), shall develop and make publicly available guidance for private 
entities on how such entities can effectively prove that a biobased 
product of such entity provides capabilities meeting the requirements 
of the Department of Defense.

    (b) Analysis.--

    (1) In general.--The Comptroller General of the United 
 States shall conduct an analysis of the process of the 
 Department of Defense for developing requirements to determine 
 if such processes intentionally or unintentionally exclude 
 biobased products.

    (2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
 enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
 States shall submit to the congressional defense committees (as 
 defined in 

section 101

    (a) of title 10, United States Code) a 
 report on the findings of the analysis conducted under 
 paragraph

    (1) and, if Comptroller General determines through 
 such analysis that the processes described in such paragraph 
 exclude biobased products, containing recommendations of the 
 Comptroller General to reduce such exclusion.
            (c) Biobased Product Defined.--In this section, the term ``biobased 
product'' means a product manufactured, produced, or developed through 
the application living organisms to alter living or non-living 
materials.
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