BRAVE Act
- Last Action
- 2/14/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-14Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2017-02-14Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-02-14 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (2)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Bob Casey (D-PA)
Subjects
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Public contracts and procurement
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
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