Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Relief Act

Bill: 113-hr-3098
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2013-09-12
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis

Public contracts and procurement

Small business

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-09-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Relief Act - Treats the surviving spouse of a service-disabled veteran who acquires the ownership interest in a small business of the deceased veteran as such veteran, for purposes of eligibility for VA service-disabled small business contracting goals and preferences, for a period of: (1) 10 years after the veteran's death, if such veteran was either 100% disabled or died from a service-connected disability; or (2) 3 years after such death, if the veteran was less than 100% disabled and did not die from a service-connected disability.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3098 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 12, 2013 Mr. McNerney (for himself, Mr. Garamendi , and Ms. Brown of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the treatment of certain small business concerns for purposes of Department of Veterans Affairs contracting goals and preferences.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Relief Act . 2. Modification of treatment under contracting goals and preferences of Department of Veterans Affairs (a) In general Section 8127(h) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking rated as and all that follows through disability. and inserting a period; and (2) in paragraph (2), by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows: (C) The date that— (i) in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability rated as 100 percent disabling or who dies as a result of a service-connected disability, is 10 years after the date of the veteran’s death; or (ii) in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability rated as less than 100 percent disabling who does not die as a result of a service-connected disability, is three years after the date of the veteran’s death. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to contracts awarded on or after such date.