[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5044 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5044


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2018

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the treatment of 
 certain surviving spouses under the contracting goals and preferences 
                 of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    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 Veterans Small 
Business Continuation Act''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT REGARDING TREATMENT OF CERTAIN SURVIVING 
              SPOUSES UNDER CONTRACTING GOALS AND PREFERENCES OF 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Effective on the date specified in subsection (e) of section 1832 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public 
Law 114-328; 130 Stat. 2660), section 8127(k)(3) of title 38, United 
States Code, as amended by such section 1832, is further amended by 
inserting after the period at the end the following new sentence: ``A 
surviving spouse of such a veteran who is not covered by subparagraph 
(C)(i) of such section by reason of the disability rating of the 
veteran being less than 100 percent shall be treated as being so 
covered during the period beginning on the date of the death of the 
veteran and ending on the date that is 3 years after such death, the 
date on which the surviving spouse remarries, or the date on which the 
surviving spouse relinquishes an


              

 ownership interest in the small business concern, whichever occurs 
first.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 21, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.