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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
7/11/2016 • Senate
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Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act or the BRAVE Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract 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.
Any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees shall be debarred from contracting with the VA for at least five years.
Introduced in Senate • 7/11/2016
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Originated in the Senate
Introduced
July 11, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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