31 USC § 1354 - Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements

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title: "31 USC § 1354 - Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements"
title_number: 31
title_name: "MONEY AND FINANCE"
section_number: "1354"
section_name: "Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements"
chapter_number: 13
chapter_name: "APPROPRIATIONS"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND PENALTIES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 105–339, § 7(b)(1), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3189.)"
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# § 1354. Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements

**(a)**

**(1)** Subject to paragraph (2), no agency may obligate or expend funds appropriated for the agency for a fiscal year to enter into a contract described in section 4212(a) of title 38 with a contractor from which a report was required under section 4212(d) of that title with respect to the preceding fiscal year if such contractor did not submit such report.

**(2)** Paragraph (1) shall cease to apply with respect to a contractor otherwise covered by that paragraph on the date on which the contractor submits the report required by such section 4212(d) for the fiscal year concerned.

**(b)** The Secretary of Labor shall make available in a database a list of the contractors that have complied with the provisions of such section 4212(d).

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 105–339, § 7(b)(1), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3189.)