{"id":28201,"date":"2025-08-05T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=28201"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:24:08","slug":"sens-ossoff-kennedy-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-support-disabled-veterans-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-kennedy-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-support-disabled-veterans-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff, Kennedy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Support Disabled Veterans\u2019 Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is introducing bipartisan legislation to support Georgia\u2019s small businesses owned by veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Ossoff and John Kennedy (R-LA) recently introduced the Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act<\/em>\u00a0to help disabled veterans\u2019 small businesses thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Small Business Administration (SBA) currently manages a program that allocates certain Federal contracts to service-disabled veterans\u2019 small businesses. The bipartisan Service-Disabled Veterans Opportunities in Small Business Act <\/em>would require the SBA to issue guidance for the extension of contracts to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bipartisan bill would also require the SBA to issue a report to Congress detailing a list of each Federal agency that failed to meet its contracting goals and provide training for Federal agencies that fail to meet contracting goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cService-disabled veterans have made huge sacrifices in our national defense. That’s why Senator Kennedy and I are introducing this bipartisan bill to support small businesses run by service-disabled veterans in Georgia and nationwide,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerica owes a debt of gratitude to every veteran who sacrifices for our country. Our bill would do right by service-disabled veterans by making sure government agencies are giving their small businesses a fair shake,\u201d Sen. Kennedy said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representatives Nick LaLota (R-NY) and Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) introduced a companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Kennedy and Ossoff have proposed their legislation as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act<\/em> (NDAA), Congress\u2019s annual defense spending and policy bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is a strong advocate for veterans in the state of Georgia and nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, President Trump signed the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act<\/em> into law<\/a>, bipartisan legislation that Sen. Ossoff championed to help veterans relying on VA home loans and experiencing severe financial hardship avoid foreclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Sen. Ossoff passed into law the bipartisan Investing in VETS Act<\/em><\/a> to help service-disabled veteran business owners compete for Federal government contracts, helping expand their business opportunities to new markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read the Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is introducing bipartisan legislation to support Georgia\u2019s small businesses owned by veterans. Sens. Ossoff and John Kennedy (R-LA) recently introduced the Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act\u00a0to help disabled veterans\u2019 small businesses thrive. The Small Business Administration (SBA) currently manages a program that allocates certain Federal contracts to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28201","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28942,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28201\/revisions\/28942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}