---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1354"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1354"
heading: "Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1354"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 13 — Appropriations"
  - "Subchapter III — Limitations, Exceptions, and Penalties"
---

# §1354. Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans’ employment reporting requirements

- (a)
  - (1) Subject to [paragraph (2)](#a-2), no [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1) may obligate or expend funds appropriated for the [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1) for a fiscal year to enter into a contract described in [section 4212(a) of title 38](/usc/38/4212.md?p=a) with a contractor from which a report was required under [section 4212(d)](/usc/38/4212.md?p=d) of that title with respect to the preceding fiscal year if such contractor did not submit such report.
  - (2) [Paragraph (1)](#a-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).

## Source credit

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