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109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109-592
VETERANS SMALL BUSINESS AND MEMORIAL AFFAIRS
ACT OF 2006
JULY 24, 2006.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BUYER, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3082]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3082) to amend title 38, United States Code, to require
that 9 percent of procurement contracts entered into by the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs be awarded to small business concerns
owned by veterans, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend
that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Veterans Small Business and
Memorial Affairs Act of 2006.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I-SMALL BUSINESS
Sec. 101. Department of Veterans Affairs goals for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by
veterans in procurement contracts.
Sec. 102. Department of Veterans Affairs contracting priority for veteran-owned small businesses.
Sec. 103. Effective date.
TITLE II-MEMORIAL AFFAIRS
Sec. 201. Eligibility of Indian tribal organizations for grants for the establishment of veterans cemeteries on
trust lands.
Sec. 202. Repeal of expiration and expanded application of Department of Veterans Affairs benefit for Govern-
ment markers or headstones for marked graves of veterans buried in private cemeteries.
Sec. 203. Provision of Government memorial headstones or markers and memorial inscriptions for deceased de-
pendent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable for burial.
TITLE III-VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
Sec. 301. Professional qualifications for disabled veterans' outreach program specialists and local veterans' em-
ployment representatives.
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