3.0.0 2334 2023-01-11T13:26:21Z 2023-01-11T13:26:21Z Senate S S 2014-05-14 113 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-05-14T19:12:47Z Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2013 113 2882 HR 2014-12-11 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 113-662, Part I. Related bill CRS Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 113 4435 HR 2014-06-05 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 425. Related bill CRS 2014-05-14 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2014-05-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. N B001135 Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] Richard Burr R NC Mauze 2014-05-14 True Commerce Congressional oversight Department of Veterans Affairs Disability and paralysis Government studies and investigations Small Business Administration Small business Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Commerce 00 2014-05-14 Introduced in Senate 2014-07-02T20:23:18Z Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to expand the definition of "small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans" for purposes of federal agencies awarding small business contracts pursuant to Small Business Administration (SBA) programs to include: (1) a small business concern not less than 51% of which is owned by one or more veterans with service-connected disabilities that are permanent and total who are unable to manage the daily business operations of such concern; or (2) in the case of a publicly owned business, a small business concern not less than 51% of the stock of which is owned by one or more such veterans. (Currently, such veterans with permanent and total disabilities are provided for in a separate small business program under veterans' benefits laws carried out by the Department of Veterans Affairs [VA].)

Revises the VA definition of "small business concern owned and controlled by veterans" to be the same as the SBA definition of such term, thereby making the eligibility requirements for participation in veteran-owned small business contracting programs consistent for both SBA programs and VA programs.

Provides that if the death of a service-disabled veteran causes a small business concern to be less than 51% owned by one or more such veterans, the surviving spouse of such veteran who acquires ownership rights in such small business concern shall be treated as if the surviving spouse were that veteran for the purpose of maintaining the business's eligibility for such contracting programs until the earliest of the following dates: (1) the date on which the surviving spouse either remarries or relinquishes the ownership interest, (2) 10 years after the veteran's death in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability rated as 100% disabling or who dies as a result of a service-connected disability, or (3) 3 years after the veteran's death in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability rated as less than 100% disabling who does not die as a result of a service-connected disability. (Currently, the SBA program does not provide such treatment for surviving spouses while the VA program provides such treatment only until remarriage, ownership relinquishment, or for 10 years with respect to surviving spouses of veterans with a 100% disabling service-connected disability or who die as a result of a service-connected disability.)

Requires a Comptroller General (GAO) report on the advisability of the SBA or the VA having government-wide responsibility for verifying businesses purporting to be small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.

]]> Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 Display Title Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Small Business Act and title 38, United States Code, to provide for a consolidated definition of a small business concern owned and controlled by veterans, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 Introduced in Senate 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2334is/xml/BILLS-113s2334is.xml 2014-05-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.