[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5484 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5484

  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish an annual 
   award program to recognize businesses for their contributions to 
             veterans' employment, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2010

  Mr. Teague introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish an annual 
   award program to recognize businesses for their contributions to 
             veterans' employment, and for other purposes.

    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 ``VetStar Veteran-Friendly Business 
Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. AWARD PROGRAM.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
establish an award program, to be known as the ``VetStar Award 
Program'', to annually recognize businesses for their contributions to 
veterans' employment.
    (b) Administration.--The Secretary shall establish a process for 
the administration of the award program, including criteria for--
            (1) categories and sectors of businesses eligible for 
        recognition each year; and
            (2) objective measures to be used in selecting businesses 
        to receive the award.

SEC. 3. VETERAN DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``veteran'' has the meaning given that term 
in section 101(2) of title 38, United States Code.
                                 <all>