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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 865 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing contract |
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| 6 | 6 | | awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by service- |
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| 7 | 7 | | disabled veterans, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY31, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. L |
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| 11 | 11 | | ALOTA(for himself and Mr. MCGARVEY) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Small Business |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Small Business Act to require training on |
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| 15 | 15 | | increasing contract awards to small business concerns |
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| 16 | 16 | | owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and |
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| 17 | 17 | | for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Service-Disabled Vet-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | eran Opportunities in Small Business Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. TRAINING ON INCREASING CONTRACT AWARDS TO 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED VET-3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ERANS. 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Section 36 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 657f) is amended by adding at the end the following new 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | subsection: 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(j) T |
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| 34 | 34 | | RAINING ONINCREASINGCONTRACTAWARDS 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | TOSMALLBUSINESSCONCERNSOWNED AND CON-9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | TROLLED BYSERVICE-DISABLEDVETERANS.— 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 38 | 38 | | N GENERAL.—The Administrator, in con-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | sultation with the head of the Office of Veterans 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Business Development, shall provide to covered em-13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ployees at each Federal agency that has not met the 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | goal established under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) train-15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ing on how to increase the number of contracts 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | awarded to small business concerns owned and con-17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | trolled by service-disabled veterans. 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(2) G |
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| 47 | 47 | | UIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | the Administrator, in consultation with the head of 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the Office of Veterans Business Development, shall 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | issue guidance, including best practices, on increas-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ing the number of contracts awarded to small busi-24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | nesses owned and controlled by service-disabled vet-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 865 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | erans for Federal agencies to which the goal estab-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | lished under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) applies. 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(3) R |
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| 60 | 60 | | EPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | date of enactment of this subsection, and annually 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Con-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | gress a report, for the fiscal year covered by the re-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | port, that includes— 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(A) a list of each Federal agency that 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | failed to meet the goal established under section 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 15(g)(1)(A)(ii); 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(B) the number of trainings provided to 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | each Federal agency described in paragraph 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (1); and 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(C) an overview of the content included in 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | such training sessions.’’. 15 |
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