Surviving Spouse Contracting Preference Act

Bill: 115-hr-971
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-02-07
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement

Small business

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Surviving Spouse Contracting Preference Act</strong></p> <p>This bill treats a small business owned by the surviving spouse of member of the Armed Forces killed in the line of duty as a small business concern owned and controlled by a service-disabled veteran for purposes of contracting goals and preferences of the Department of Veterans Affairs. </p> <p>The company shall be so considered beginning on the date on which the member of the Armed Forces dies and ending on the earlier of the date on which the surviving spouse: (1) remarries, or (2) relinquishes ownership in such business. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 971 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 7, 2017 Ms. Meng introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to treat small businesses, owned by surviving spouses of members of the Armed Forces killed in the line of duty, as small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans for purposes of contracting goals and preferences of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Surviving Spouse Contracting Preference Act . 2. Treatment of businesses owned by surviving spouses of members of the Armed Forces for purposes of Department of Veterans Affairs contracting goals and preferences (a) In general Section 8127 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (k) as subsections (i) through (l), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection (h): (h) Treatment of businesses after death of member (1) If a member of the Armed Forces is killed in the line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service, the surviving spouse of such member who acquires ownership rights in a small business concern shall, for the period described in paragraph (2), be treated as the surviving spouse of a service-disabled veteran described in section 3(q)(2)(C)(i) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632(q)(2)(C)(i) ). (2) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is the period beginning on the date on which the member of the Armed Forces dies and ending on the earliest of the following dates: (A) The date on which the surviving spouse of the member remarries. (B) The date on which the surviving spouse relinquishes such ownership interest in the small business concern. . (b) Effective date Subsection (h) of section 8127 of such title, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to the deaths of members of the Armed Forces occurring on or after such date.