[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3154 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3154

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs, in awarding a contract for the procurement of goods 
  or services, to give a preference to offerors that employ veterans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2016

Ms. Baldwin (for herself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs, in awarding a contract for the procurement of goods 
  or services, to give a preference to offerors that employ 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 ``Boosting Rates of American Veteran 
Employment Act'' or the ``BRAVE Act''.

SEC. 2. PREFERENCE FOR OFFERORS EMPLOYING VETERANS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 8129. Preference for offerors employing veterans
    ``(a) Preference.--In awarding a contract (or task order) for the 
procurement of goods or services, the Secretary may give a preference 
to offerors that employ veterans on a full-time basis. The Secretary 
shall determine such preference based on the percentage of the full-
time employees of the offeror who are veterans.
    ``(b) Enforcement Penalties for Misrepresentation.--(1) Any offeror 
that is determined by the Secretary to have willfully and intentionally 
misrepresented the veteran status of the employees of the offeror for 
purposes of subsection (a) shall be debarred from contracting with the 
Department for a period of not less than 5 years.
    ``(2) In the case of a debarment under paragraph (1), the Secretary 
shall commence debarment action against the offeror by not later than 
30 days after determining that the offeror willfully and intentionally 
misrepresented the veteran status of the employees of the offeror as 
described in such paragraph and shall complete debarment action against 
such offeror by not later than 90 days after such determination.
    ``(3) The debarment of an offeror under paragraph (1) includes the 
debarment of all principals of the offeror for a period of not less 
than 5 years.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 81 of such title is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 8128 the following new item:

``8129. Preference for offerors employing veterans.''.
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