S 3154 114th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security Department of Veterans Affairs Fraud offenses and financial crimes Public contracts and procurement Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

BRAVE Act

Introduced: July 11, 2016 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov

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Jul 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Jul 11, 2016

Introduced in 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.

What's happening now July 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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