General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 931
January Session, 2013 *_____SB00931APP___050113____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 931
January Session, 2013
*_____SB00931APP___050113____*
AN ACT CONCERNING VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Department of Economic and Community Development shall, within available resources, establish and maintain a registry of data pertaining to small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans and small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans that maintain their principal place of business in the state. Such registry shall include, but not be limited to, the name of the veteran or veterans who own each such business concern, the location of such business concern and the type of business in which each such business concern engages. The department shall request this information annually from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and any other appropriate state and federal agencies. For purposes of this section, "small business concern owned and controlled by veterans" and "small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans" have the same meanings as provided in 15 USC 632(q), as amended from time to time.
(b) The Department of Economic and Community Development shall submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to military and veterans' affairs, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, that includes an accounting, based on information contained in the registry described in subsection (a) of this section, of the number of small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans and small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans that maintain their principal place of business in the state.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
VA Joint Favorable Subst. C/R CE
CE Joint Favorable
APP Joint Favorable
VA
Joint Favorable Subst. C/R
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CE
Joint Favorable
APP
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