[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1469 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1469

 To require certification of small business concerns as small business 
concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in order to 
  be counted toward goals for contract awards, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 4, 2023

 Ms. Ernst (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
                          and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require certification of small business concerns as small business 
concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in order to 
  be counted toward goals for contract awards, 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 ``Stop Stolen Valor for Service-
Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Contractors''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING SELF-CERTIFICATION FOR SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-
              OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
            (2) Small business concern; small business concerns owned 
        and controlled by service-disabled veterans.--The terms ``small 
        business concern'' and ``small business concerns owned and 
        controlled by service-disabled veterans'' have the meanings 
        given those terms in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 632).
    (b) Eliminating Self-Certification in Prime Contracting and 
Subcontracting for SDVOSBs.--
            (1) In general.--Each prime contract award and subcontract 
        award that is counted for the purpose of meeting the goals for 
        participation by small business concerns owned and controlled 
        by service-disabled veterans in procurement contracts for 
        Federal agencies, as established in section 15(g)(2) of the 
        Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)(2)), shall be entered into 
        with small business concerns certified by the Administrator as 
        small business concerns owned and controlled by service-
        disabled veterans under section 36 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 
        657f).
            (2) Effective date.--Paragraph (1) shall take effect on 
        October 1 of the fiscal year beginning after the Administrator 
        promulgates the regulations required under subsection (d).
    (c) Phased Approach to Eliminating Self-Certification for 
SDVOSBs.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any small 
business concern that self-certified as a small business concern owned 
and controlled by service-disabled veterans may--
            (1) if the small business concern files a certification 
        application with the Administrator before the end of the 1-year 
        period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, maintain 
        such self-certification until the Administrator makes a 
        determination with respect to such certification; and
            (2) if the small business concern does not file a 
        certification application before the end of the 1-year period 
        beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, lose, at the 
        end of such 1-year period, any self-certification of the small 
        business concern as a small business concern owned and 
        controlled by service-disabled veterans.
    (d) Rulemaking.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall promulgate regulations 
to carry out this Act.
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