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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
5/19/2015 • Senate
Summary
Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act or the BRAVE Act
(Sec. 2) Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract or task order for the procurement of goods or services, to give preference to offerors based on the percentage of the offeror's full-time employees who are veterans.
Requires the debarment from contracting with the VA for not less than five years of any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees.
Passed House amended • 5/18/2015
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Originated in the House
Introduced
March 16, 2015
Committee Review
March 24, 2015
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Floor Debate
May 18, 2015
Passed Chamber
May 18, 2015
Other Chamber
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Enacted into Law