[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3886 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3886

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to waive certain domestic 
  content procurement preferences with respect to certain State home 
                   projects, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 6, 2024

Mr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Lee) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                          on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to waive certain domestic 
  content procurement preferences with respect to certain State home 
                   projects, 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 ``Waiving Arbitrary and Inconsistent 
Veteran Home Eligibility and Requirements Act'' or the ``WAIVER Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF DOMESTIC PROCUREMENT PREFERENCE WITH RESPECT TO 
              CERTAIN STATE VETERANS HOME PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall waive 
under subsection (b) of section 70914 of the Build America, Buy America 
Act (subtitle A of title IX of division G of Public Law 117-58) the 
domestic content procurement preference under such section with respect 
to a project for the construction of State home facilities with respect 
to which the application under section 8135 of title 38, United States 
Code, for such project was submitted on or before April 15, 2022, and 
included in the ``VA State Home Construction Grants Priority List FY 
2023'', dated June 1, 2023.
    (b) State Home Defined.--In this section, the term ``State home'' 
has the meaning given that term in section 101(19) of title 38, United 
States Code.
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