Title: Disabled Veterans Rebuilding Infrastructure to Vitalize our Economy Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Disabled Veterans Rebuilding Infrastructure to Vitalize our Economy Act
This bill amends the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) to (1) add the term "service-connected disabled veteran-owned small business concern" for purposes of awarding transportation contracts under such Act; (2) require, to the maximum extent practicable, not less than 5% of amounts available under such Act to be expended through service-connected disabled veteran-owned small business concerns; and (3) require states to notify the Department of Transportation of the percentage of small business concerns controlled by service-disabled veterans.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 492 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 492

To amend the FAST Act to improve contracting opportunities for service-
connected disabled veteran-owned small business concerns, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 14, 2019

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the FAST Act to improve contracting opportunities for service-
connected disabled veteran-owned small business concerns, 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 ``Disabled Veterans Rebuilding 
Infrastructure to Vitalize our Economy Act''.

SEC. 2. DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.

    Section 1101(b) of the FAST Act (23 U.S.C. 101 note; Public Law 
114-94) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B) (as so 
                redesignated) the following:
                    ``(A) Service-connected disabled veteran-owned 
                small business concern.--The term `service-connected 
                disabled veteran-owned small business concern' has the 
                meaning given the term `small business concern owned 
                and controlled by service-disabled veterans' in section 
                3(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)).'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``not less than 10 percent'';
                    (B) by striking ``Code, shall be'' and inserting 
                the following: ``Code--
                    ``(A) not less than 10 percent shall be'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by 
                striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; 
                and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) to the maximum extent practicable, not less 
                than 5 percent shall be expended through service-
                connected disabled veteran-owned small business 
                concerns.''; and
            (3) in paragraph (4)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (ii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (iii), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) service-disabled veterans (as 
                        defined in section 3(q) of the Small Business 
                        Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q))).''.
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