[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1265 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1265

 To amend the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the 
  Small Business Administration to award contracts to small business 
 concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans under the 
                         section 8(a) program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2007

Mr. Buyer (for himself and Mr. Boozman) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the 
  Small Business Administration to award contracts to small business 
 concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans under the 
                         section 8(a) program.

    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 ``Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small 
Business Equity Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO AWARD CONTRACTS UNDER 8(A) PROGRAM TO SMALL 
              BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-
              DISABLED VETERANS.

    Section 8 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(o) Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-
Disabled Veterans.--
            ``(1) Award of contracts.--The Administrator may award a 
        contract under subsection (a) to a small business concern owned 
        and controlled by service-disabled veterans on the same basis 
        as a contract awarded under that subsection to a socially and 
        economically disadvantaged small business concern.
            ``(2) Annual certification required.--The Administrator 
        shall require each small business concern owned and controlled 
        by service-disabled veterans that is a Program Participant 
        under section 7(j)(15) or that is awarded a contract under 
        subsection (a) to certify, on an annual basis, that such 
        concern is a small business concern owned and controlled by 
        service-disabled veterans within the meaning of section 3(q).
            ``(3) Disadvantaged owner.--For purposes of this section, 
        in the case of a small business concern owned and controlled by 
        service-disabled veterans, the term `disadvantaged owner' means 
        an owner who is a service-disabled veteran.''.
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