119-s2510

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2510 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2510

 To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
 contract awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
 service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 29, 2025

Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Mr. Ossoff) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
 and Entrepreneurship

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 A BILL

 To amend the Small Business Act to require training on increasing 
 contract awards to small business concerns owned and controlled by 
 service-disabled 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 ``Service-Disabled Veteran 
Opportunities in Small Business Act''.

SEC. 2. TRAINING ON INCREASING CONTRACT AWARDS TO SMALL BUSINESS 
 CONCERNS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SERVICE-DISABLED 
 VETERANS.

 

Section 36 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657f) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (j) Training on Increasing Contract Awards to Small Business 
Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--The Administrator, in consultation with 
 the Office of Veterans Business Development, shall provide to 
 covered employees at each Federal agency that has not met the 
 goal established under 

section 15

    (g)

    (1)
        (A)
            (ii) training on how 
 to increase the number of contracts awarded to small business 
 concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
 ``

    (2) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
 enactment of this subsection, the Administrator, in 
 consultation with the Office of Veterans Business Development, 
 shall issue guidance and best practices on increasing the 
 number of contracts awarded to small businesses owned and 
 controlled by service-disabled veterans for Federal agencies to 
 which the goal established under 

section 15

    (g)

    (1)
        (A)
            (ii) applies.
 ``

    (3) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
 enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the 
 Administration shall submit to Congress a report detailing, for 
 the fiscal year covered by the report--
 ``
        (A) a list of each Federal agency that failed to 
 meet the goal established under 

section 15

    (g)

    (1)
        (A)
            (ii) ;
 ``
        (B) the number of trainings provided to each 
 Federal agency described in paragraph

    (1) ; and
 ``
            (C) an overview of the content included in the 
 training sessions described in subparagraph
        (B) .''.
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