S 1621 116th 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: May 22, 2019 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov

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May 22, 2019

Introduced in Senate

May 22, 2019

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

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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.

The VA is also 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. Such debarment shall include the debarment of all principals in the offeror for at least five years.

What's happening now May 22, 2019

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

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