S.Amdt. 2106
What it does: Adds SEC. 1082. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION TO ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO HIRE UNEMPLOYED VETERANS at the end of subtitle H of title X
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA)What it changes
1 change to S. 1197 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 1082. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION TO ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO HIRE UNEMPLOYED VETERANS at the end of subtitle H of title X
Adds a sectionIn S. 1197 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(e) Date for Submittal of Comptroller General of the United States Report.--Subsection (d) of such section is amended by striking "December 30, 2013" and inserting "December 31, 2014".
Inserted: SEC. 1082. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION TO ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO HIRE UNEMPLOYED VETERANS.
Inserted: The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall direct the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to, by not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue proposed rules and, by not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue final rules amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation--
Inserted: (1) to require contractors who are subject to the cost accounting standards under the Federal Acquisition Regulation and who received at least $25,000,000 in aggregated contracts in each of the prior two fiscal years to develop and maintain a single company-wide veterans employment plan that, at a minimum, establishes--
Inserted: (A) performance metrics;
Inserted: (B) a plan to hire unemployed veterans, with a particular focus on unemployed veterans who served on active duty in the Armed Forces after September 11, 2001; and
Inserted: (C) [methods] for training veterans not later than on year after hiring them in skills applicable to Government contracts;
Inserted: (2) to encourage Federal agencies to modify or waive a skill required for the performance of an awarded contract when the contract is to be performed by an otherwise unemployed veteran assigned to work on such contract and the contractor provides training to the veteran in order to meet the modified or waived requirement by not later than one year after the date of such assignment;
Inserted: (3) to authorize any contractor to deem that an otherwise unemployed veteran hired by a contractor after the date of the enactment of this Act who is assigned to work on a new or existing government contract meets the minimum skill qualification requirements under the contract if the contractor is provides training to such veteran in order to meet the original qualification requirement of such contract within one year of such assignment; and
Inserted: (4) to modify such audit, oversight, and allowable cost requirements as may be applicable to Federal contracts to recognize and take into account the actions taken by a contractor under paragraph (3) as being in compliance with the terms and conditions of a contract.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:
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As printed
SA 2106. Mr. REID (for Mr. Warner (for himself and Mr. Chambliss)) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Reid of NV to the bill S. 1197, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1082. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION TO ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO HIRE UNEMPLOYED VETERANS.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall direct the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to, by not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue proposed rules and, by not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue final rules amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation--
(1) to require contractors who are subject to the cost accounting standards under the Federal Acquisition Regulation and who received at least $25,000,000 in aggregated contracts in each of the prior two fiscal years to develop and maintain a single company-wide veterans employment plan that, at a minimum, establishes--
(A) performance metrics;
(B) a plan to hire unemployed veterans, with a particular focus on unemployed veterans who served on active duty in the Armed Forces after September 11, 2001; and
(C) [methods] for training veterans not later than on year after hiring them in skills applicable to Government contracts;
(2) to encourage Federal agencies to modify or waive a skill required for the performance of an awarded contract when the contract is to be performed by an otherwise unemployed veteran assigned to work on such contract and the contractor provides training to the veteran in order to meet the modified or waived requirement by not later than one year after the date of such assignment;
(3) to authorize any contractor to deem that an otherwise unemployed veteran hired by a contractor after the date of the enactment of this Act who is assigned to work on a new or existing government contract meets the minimum skill qualification requirements under the contract if the contractor is provides training to such veteran in order to meet the original qualification requirement of such contract within one year of such assignment; and
(4) to modify such audit, oversight, and allowable cost requirements as may be applicable to Federal contracts to recognize and take into account the actions taken by a contractor under paragraph (3) as being in compliance with the terms and conditions of a contract.
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Senate amendment submitted
November 18, 2013