To require the Department of Veterans Affairs to use purchases of goods or services through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting certain contracting goals for participation by small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, including veterans with service-connected disabilities.

Requires contracting officers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use purchases of goods or services through the federal supply schedules for the purpose of meeting the government-wide goal for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2416 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2416

To require the Department of Veterans Affairs to use purchases of goods 
  or services through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of 
 meeting certain contracting goals for participation by small business 
  concerns owned and controlled by veterans, including veterans with 
                    service-connected disabilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2009

  Mr. Adler of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. Lance) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
 Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
 Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Department of Veterans Affairs to use purchases of goods 
  or services through the Federal supply schedules for the purpose of 
 meeting certain contracting goals for participation by small business 
  concerns owned and controlled by veterans, including veterans with 
                    service-connected disabilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF FEDERAL SUPPLY SCHEDULES BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS TO MEET CONTRACTING GOALS FOR PARTICIPATION BY 
              SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY VETERANS.

    Section 8127 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (k) and (l) as subsections 
        (l) and (m), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (j) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(k) Federal Supply Schedules.--Notwithstanding any law or 
regulation relating to the Federal supply schedules of the General 
Services Administration, a contracting officer of the Department shall 
use purchases of goods or services through the Federal supply schedules 
for the purpose of meeting the goals under subsection (a).''.
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