I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4125 
To amend the Small Business Act to improve services for small business 
concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2009 
Mr. NYE (for himself, Mr. ELLSWORTH, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. 
ALTMIRE, Ms. CLARKE, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona, Ms. BEAN, and 
Mrs. DAHLKEMPER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to improve services for 
small business concerns owned and controlled by service- 
disabled veterans, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Service Disabled Vet-
eran-Owned Small Business Procurement Reform Act of 
2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROCUREMENT REFORM RELATING TO SMALL 
BUSINESS 
CONCERNS 
OWNED 
AND 
CON-
TROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 44 as section 45; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 43 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 44. PROCUREMENT REFORM RELATING TO SMALL 
BUSINESS 
CONCERNS 
OWNED 
AND 
CON-
TROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS. 
‘‘(a) PENALTIES FOR MISREPRESENTATION.—Who-
ever misrepresents the status of any concern or person as 
a ‘small business concern owned and controlled by service- 
disabled veterans’ in order to obtain for oneself or another 
any contract under section 36 shall be subject to the pen-
alties specified in section 16(d). 
‘‘(b) OFFICE
OF SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN- 
OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PROCUREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Administrator 
shall establish within the Administration an Office of 
Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business 
Procurement (in this subsection referred to as the 
‘office’) to carry out the duties specified in para-
graph (3). 
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‘‘(2) DEPUTY
ASSOCIATE
ADMINISTRATOR.— 
The Administrator shall appoint a Deputy Associate 
Administrator to be the head of the office. 
‘‘(3) DUTIES.—The duties of the office are the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Provide oversight with respect to the 
procurement program for small business con-
cerns owned and controlled by service-disabled 
veterans established under section 36. 
‘‘(B) Report to the Administrator on the 
performance of such program. 
‘‘(c) OFFICE
OF SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN- 
OWNED SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.— 
‘‘(1) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Administrator 
shall establish within the Administration an Office of 
Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business De-
velopment (in this subsection referred to as the ‘of-
fice’) to carry out the duties specified in paragraph 
(3). 
‘‘(2) DEPUTY
ASSOCIATE
ADMINISTRATOR.— 
The Administrator shall appoint a Deputy Associate 
Administrator to be the head of the office. Such 
Deputy Associate Administrator shall report to the 
Associate Administrator for Veterans Business De-
velopment appointed under section 4(b)(1). 
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‘‘(3) DUTIES.—The duties of the office are the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Promote business opportunities for 
small business concerns owned and controlled 
by service-disabled veterans. 
‘‘(B) Establish a database of small busi-
ness concerns owned and controlled by service- 
disabled veterans. 
‘‘(C) Establish eligibility criteria for the in-
clusion of small business concerns in the data-
base under subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(D) Update at least every 3 months the 
database under subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(d) VETERANS PROCUREMENT SPECIALISTS.— 
‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT.—The Administrator shall 
appoint in each regional office of the Administration 
a veterans procurement specialist. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.—A veterans procurement spe-
cialist shall— 
‘‘(A) assist the Deputy Associate Adminis-
trator appointed under subsection (a)(2) to pro-
vide oversight with respect to the procurement 
program for small business concerns owned and 
controlled by service-disabled veterans estab-
lished under section 36; and 
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‘‘(B) assist the Deputy Associate Adminis-
trator appointed under subsection (b)(2) to pro-
mote business opportunities for small business 
concerns owned and controlled by service-dis-
abled veterans. 
‘‘(e) PROTEST OF CONTRACTS.—A small business 
concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans 
may protest to the Administrator the awarding of any con-
tract pursuant to section 36.’’. 
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