Official Summaries

Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act

This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide employees at any federal agency that has not met the goal of awarding at least 3% of its prime contracts and subcontracts to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans with training to increase the number of such contracts awarded.

For each fiscal year, the SBA must report a list of each agency that did not meet the contracting goal and the number of trainings the SBA provided.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 865 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 865

   To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
  contract awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
           service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2025

  Mr. LaLota (for himself and Mr. McGarvey) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
  contract awards 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. TRAINING ON INCREASING CONTRACT AWARDS TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED 
              VETERANS.

    Section 36 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Training on Increasing Contract Awards to Small Business 
Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Administrator, in consultation with 
        the head of the Office of Veterans Business Development, shall 
        provide to covered employees at each Federal agency that has 
        not met the goal established under section 15(g)(1)(A)(ii) 
        training on how to increase the number of contracts awarded to 
        small business concerns owned and controlled by service-
        disabled veterans.
            ``(2) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this subsection, the Administrator, in 
        consultation with the head of the Office of Veterans Business 
        Development, shall issue guidance, including best practices, on 
        increasing the number of contracts awarded to small businesses 
        owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans for Federal 
        agencies to which the goal established under section 
        15(g)(1)(A)(ii) applies.
            ``(3) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the 
        Administrator shall submit to Congress a report, for the fiscal 
        year covered by the report, that includes--
                    ``(A) a list of each Federal agency that failed to 
                meet the goal established under section 
                15(g)(1)(A)(ii);
                    ``(B) the number of trainings provided to each 
                Federal agency described in paragraph (1); and
                    ``(C) an overview of the content included in such 
                training sessions.''.
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