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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 633
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-414
VETERANS SMALL BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT ACT OF
2018
DECEMBER 5, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. RISCH, from the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2679]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, to
which was referred the bill (S. 2679) to provide access to and man-
age the distribution of excess or surplus property to veteran-owned
small businesses, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment (in the nature of a substitute) and rec-
ommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
I. INTRODUCTION
A bill to provide access to and manage the distribution of excess
or surplus property to veteran-owned small businesses (S. 2679)
was introduced by Senator Richard J. Durbin on behalf of Senator
Tammy Duckworth, for herself, and Senator John Kennedy on
April 16, 2018. Other cosponsors include Senator Jon Tester, Sen-
ator Tim Kaine, and Senator Maria Cantwell.
This bill directs the Small Business Administration (SBA), in co-
ordination with the General Services Administration (GSA) and
state surplus agencies to allow veteran-owned small businesses to
be eligible to receive surplus federal property.
During the markup of the bill, the Duckworth substitute amend-
ment to the bill was approved unanimously by a roll call vote as
part of a manager's package. The Duckworth amendment is a clari-
fying amendment that references United States Code to better de-
fine the terms state agency and foreign excess property. The
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