Legislative update: House OKs small biz contracting measures

Speedier payments, vets’ surviving spouse bills move

      The House in recent weeks has passed dozens of provisions affecting small business federal contractors, mostly in the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

      Reps. Steve Chabot, R-OH, chair of the House Small Business Committee, and Nydia Velazquez, D-NY, senior Democrat on the committee, each released a list of most significant measures originating from members of the committee that had been accepted into the House-approved version of the NDAA.

      The House also approved bills to strengthen Women’s Business Centers and to allow spouses of disabled veteran small business owners to carry on after the veteran is deceased...more....