[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5068-S5069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3259. Mr. TUBERVILLE submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1067. INCLUSION OF SURVIVING CHILDREN IN SMALL BUSINESS 
                   CONCERN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-
                   DISABLED VETERANS DEFINITION.

       Section 3(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D)(i) During the time period described in clause (ii), a 
     small business concern that was a small business concern 
     described in subparagraph (A) or (B) immediately prior to

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     the death of a service-disabled veteran who was the owner of 
     the concern, the death of whom causes the concern to be less 
     than 51 percent owned by 1 or more service-disabled veterans, 
     if--
       ``(I) a surviving child of the deceased veteran acquires 
     such veteran's ownership interest in such concern; and
       ``(II) immediately prior to the death of such veteran and 
     during the period described in clause (ii), the small 
     business concern is included in the database described in 
     section 36.
       ``(ii) The time period described in this clause is the time 
     period beginning on the date of the veteran's death and 
     ending on the earlier of--
       ``(I) the date on which the surviving child relinquishes an 
     ownership interest in the small business concern; or
       ``(II) the date that is 3 years after the date of the 
     veteran's death.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(8) Surviving child.--The term `surviving child' means a 
     biological or legally adopted child of a service-disabled 
     veteran.''.
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