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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1469
To require certification of small business concerns as small business concerns
owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in order to be counted
toward goals for contract awards, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY4, 2023
Ms. E
RNST(for herself and Mr. MORAN) introduced the following bill; which
was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and En-
trepreneurship
A BILL
To require certification of small business concerns as small
business concerns owned and controlled by service-dis-
abled veterans in order to be counted toward goals for
contract awards, 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
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Stolen Valor for 4
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Contrac-5
tors’’. 6
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SEC. 2. ELIMINATING SELF-CERTIFICATION FOR SERVICE- 1
DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSI-2
NESSES. 3
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 4
(1) A
DMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-5
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Small Busi-6
ness Administration. 7
(2) S
MALL BUSINESS CONCERN ; SMALL BUSI-8
NESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY 9
SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS .—The terms ‘‘small 10
business concern’’ and ‘‘small business concerns 11
owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans’’ 12
have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of 13
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632). 14
(b) E
LIMINATINGSELF-CERTIFICATION IN PRIME 15
C
ONTRACTING AND SUBCONTRACTING FOR SDVOSBS.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Each prime contract award 17
and subcontract award that is counted for the pur-18
pose of meeting the goals for participation by small 19
business concerns owned and controlled by service- 20
disabled veterans in procurement contracts for Fed-21
eral agencies, as established in section 15(g)(2) of 22
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)(2)), shall 23
be entered into with small business concerns cer-24
tified by the Administrator as small business con-25
cerns owned and controlled by service-disabled vet-26
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erans under section 36 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 1
657f). 2
(2) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—Paragraph (1) shall 3
take effect on October 1 of the fiscal year beginning 4
after the Administrator promulgates the regulations 5
required under subsection (d). 6
(c) P
HASEDAPPROACH TOELIMINATINGSELF-CER-7
TIFICATION FORSDVOSBS.—Notwithstanding any other 8
provision of law, any small business concern that self-cer-9
tified as a small business concern owned and controlled 10
by service-disabled veterans may— 11
(1) if the small business concern files a certifi-12
cation application with the Administrator before the 13
end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of en-14
actment of this Act, maintain such self-certification 15
until the Administrator makes a determination with 16
respect to such certification; and 17
(2) if the small business concern does not file 18
a certification application before the end of the 1- 19
year period beginning on the date of enactment of 20
this Act, lose, at the end of such 1-year period, any 21
self-certification of the small business concern as a 22
small business concern owned and controlled by serv-23
ice-disabled veterans. 24
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(d) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 180 days after the 1
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall pro-2
mulgate regulations to carry out this Act. 3
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