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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2/14/2017 • Senate
Summary
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.
The VA is authorized to debar from VA contracting for at least five years any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees.
Introduced in Senate • 2/14/2017
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Originated in the Senate
Introduced
February 14, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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