Commerce for Defenders Act of 2010

Commerce for Defenders Act of 2010 - Amends the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act to give preference to small businesses owned and controlled by veterans in the awarding of contracts and subcontracts using federal-aid highway, public transportation, commercial motor vehicle safety, the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005, transportation research, and highway safety research and development program funds.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5627 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5627

  To amend the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act to assist 
small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2010

 Mr. Rahall (for himself, Mr. Filner, Ms. Norton, Ms. Corrine Brown of 
    Florida, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, and Mr. Cummings) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Small Business, 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 amend the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act to assist 
small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Commerce for Defenders Act of 
2010''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY VETERANS.

    Title IV of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (Public 
Law 111-147) is amended by adding at the end the following:

 ``Subtitle F--Small Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Veterans

``SEC. 461. SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY VETERANS.

    ``(a) General Rule.--In the awarding of contracts and subcontracts 
using amounts made available under titles I, III, and V of SAFETEA-LU 
(Public Law 109-59), subtitles A and C of this title, and section 403 
of title 23, United States Code, a preference shall be given to the use 
of small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans.
    ``(b) Eligibility.--A small business concern owned and controlled 
by veterans shall be eligible for the preference under subsection (a) 
if such concern is listed in the database maintained pursuant to 
section 8127(f) of title 38, United States Code.''.
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