Title: Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to provide training to relevant employees at any federal agency that awards in a fiscal year less than 3% of its prime contracts and subcontracts to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5076 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5076

 To require training for employees of Federal agencies that award less 
than 3 percent of prime contracts 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

                           November 14, 2022

   Ms. Ernst (for herself, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Moran) 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 require training for employees of Federal agencies that award less 
than 3 percent of prime contracts 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. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Administration; administrator.--The terms 
        ``Administration'' and ``Administrator'' mean the Small 
        Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, 
        respectively.
            (2) Small business concern owned and controlled by service-
        disabled veterans.--The term ``small business concern owned and 
        controlled by service-disabled veterans'' has the meaning given 
        the term in section 3(q) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
        632(q)).

SEC. 3. FEDERAL CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS 
              OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS.

    (a) Required Training.--Notwithstanding the goals established under 
section 15(g)(1)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)(A)) 
for each Federal agency, the Administration, in consultation with the 
Office of Veterans Business Development of the Administration, shall 
provide training to employees with responsibility for procurement or 
acquisition at any Federal agency that awards less than 3 percent of 
prime contracts and subcontracts to small business concerns owned and 
controlled by service-disabled veterans in a fiscal year.
    (b) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Office of 
Veterans Business Development of the Administration, shall issue 
publicly available guidance for each Federal agency that is required to 
meet the goal under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)(A)(ii)).
    (c) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and annually thereafter, the Administration shall submit to 
Congress a report detailing, for the fiscal year covered by the 
report--
            (1) a list of each Federal agency that awarded less than 
        the 3 percent of the prime contracts and subcontracts required 
        under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 644(g)(1)(A)(ii));
            (2) the number of training sessions provided by each such 
        Federal agency under subsection (a);
            (3) an overview of the content included in those training 
        sessions; and
            (4) whether additional contracting opportunities were 
        provided to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
        service-disabled veterans.
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