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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4417 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4417

   To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
  contract awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
           service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2024

  Mr. Kennedy 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 amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
  contract awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
           service-disabled veterans, 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 ``Service-Disabled Veteran 
Opportunities in Small Business Act''.

SEC. 2. TRAINING ON INCREASING CONTRACT AWARDS TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED 
              VETERANS.

    Section 36 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Training on Increasing Contract Awards to Small Business 
Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Administrator, in consultation with 
        the Office of Veterans Business Development, shall provide to 
        covered employees at each Federal agency that has not met the 
        goal established under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) training on how 
        to increase the number of contracts awarded to small business 
        concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
            ``(2) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        enactment of this subsection, the Administrator, in 
        consultation with the Office of Veterans Business Development, 
        shall issue guidance and best practices on increasing the 
        number of contracts awarded to small businesses owned and 
        controlled by service-disabled veterans for Federal agencies to 
        which the goal established under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) 
        applies.
            ``(3) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the 
        Administration shall submit to Congress a report detailing, for 
        the fiscal year covered by the report--
                    ``(A) a list of each Federal agency that failed to 
                meet the goal established under section 
                15(g)(1)(A)(ii);
                    ``(B) the number of trainings provided to each 
                Federal agency described in paragraph (1); and
                    ``(C) an overview of the content included in the 
                training sessions described in subparagraph (B).''.
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