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(Sec. 2) Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract or task order 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.
Requires the debarment from contracting with the VA for not less than five years of any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1382 as passed House amended on May 18, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House May 18, 2015
Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act (BRAVE Act)
Passed · Two-thirds required
404 Yea 0 Nay 28 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1382 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1382 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
12 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.