[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1920 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1920

 To require that contracts entered into by the Federal Government for 
 reconstruction in Iraq include a condition that the contractor, when 
 hiring employees to carry out the contract, provide a preference for 
                        the hiring of veterans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

  Mr. Filner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that contracts entered into by the Federal Government for 
 reconstruction in Iraq include a condition that the contractor, when 
 hiring employees to carry out the contract, provide a preference for 
                        the hiring of veterans.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Let U.S. Veterans Rebuild Iraq 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR VETERANS HIRING PREFERENCE FOR FEDERAL 
              CONTRACTORS PERFORMING CONTRACTS FOR RECONSTRUCTION IN 
              IRAQ.

    (a) Veterans Preference.--As a condition of any contract, or any 
subcontract at any tier under a contract, entered into by the Federal 
Government with a private sector contractor to perform reconstruction 
in Iraq, the Federal Government shall require the contractor (and any 
subcontractor at any tier hired by the contractor), when hiring 
employees who will perform work under the contract (or subcontract), to 
extend to preference eligible veterans a hiring preference equivalent 
to the preference extended to preference eligible veterans for civilian 
employee positions in the Federal Government.
    (b) Preference Eligible Veteran Defined.--In this section, the term 
``preference eligible veteran'' has the meaning given the term 
``preference eligible'' in section 2108 of title 5.
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