S.Amdt. 3838

SA 3838. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. Ossoff) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military

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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 F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1067. GUIDANCE 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) Guidance on Increasing Contract Awards to Small
Business Concerns Owned and Controlled by Service-disabled
Veterans.--
``(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator 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.
``(2) Report.--The Administrator, in coordination with
other Federal agencies, shall--
``(A) collect data on the number of small business concerns
owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans that are
denied contracts and the reasons for those denials;
``(B) issue a report on--
``(i) whether there are low rates of applications submitted
by small business concerns owned and controlled by service-
disabled veterans for contracts;
``(ii) whether small business concerns owned and controlled
by service-disabled veterans are being denied contracts
because the concerns lack the necessary skills or capacity to
scale resources for Federal contracts; and
``(iii) recommendations to improve outreach or solicitation
efforts for small business concerns owned and controlled by
service-disabled veterans.''.
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