[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1920 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1920
To require that contracts entered into by the Federal Government for
reconstruction in Iraq include a condition that the contractor, when
hiring employees to carry out the contract, provide a preference for
the hiring of veterans.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 1, 2003
Mr. Filner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Government Reform
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A BILL
To require that contracts entered into by the Federal Government for
reconstruction in Iraq include a condition that the contractor, when
hiring employees to carry out the contract, provide a preference for
the hiring of veterans.
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 ``Let U.S. Veterans Rebuild Iraq
Act''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR VETERANS HIRING PREFERENCE FOR FEDERAL
CONTRACTORS PERFORMING CONTRACTS FOR RECONSTRUCTION IN
IRAQ.
(a) Veterans Preference.--As a condition of any contract, or any
subcontract at any tier under a contract, entered into by the Federal
Government with a private sector contractor to perform reconstruction
in Iraq, the Federal Government shall require the contractor (and any
subcontractor at any tier hired by the contractor), when hiring
employees who will perform work under the contract (or subcontract), to
extend to preference eligible veterans a hiring preference equivalent
to the preference extended to preference eligible veterans for civilian
employee positions in the Federal Government.
(b) Preference Eligible Veteran Defined.--In this section, the term
``preference eligible veteran'' has the meaning given the term
``preference eligible'' in section 2108 of title 5.
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