[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5969 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5969

   To amend the Small Business Act to make service-disabled veterans 
         eligible under the 8(a) business development program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2008

   Mr. Wittman of Virginia 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 make service-disabled veterans 
         eligible under the 8(a) business development 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 ``Disabled Veteran Small Business 
Eligibility Expansion Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS UNDER 8(A) PROGRAM.

    Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(C) by inserting after ``small business 
        concern owned and controlled by socially and economically 
        disadvantaged individuals'' the following: ``, or a small 
        business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled 
        veterans,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                subparagraph (D); and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) For purposes of this section--
                            ``(i) the term `socially and economically 
                        disadvantaged small business concern' includes 
                        a small business concern owned and controlled 
                        by service-disabled veterans; and
                            ``(ii) the term `disadvantaged owner' 
                        includes an owner who is a service-disabled 
                        veteran, in the case of a small business 
                        concern owned and controlled by service-
                        disabled veterans.''.
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