3154 -- BRAVE Act | Poliscope

BRAVE Act

3154

114th Congress

Armed Forces and National Security

In Committee

BRAVE Act

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

July 11, 2016

Latest Action

July 11, 2016

Primary Sponsor

Tammy BaldwinDemocratic(WI)

Momentum (last 30 days)

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0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

Speed vs cohort

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0d open

vs 3,548 other S bills in the 114th — cohort avg 43d

Summary

Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act or the BRAVE Act This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract for the procurement of goods or services, to give preference to offerors based on the percentage of the offeror's full-time employees who are veterans. Any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees shall be debarred from contracting with the VA for at least five years.