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<meta><dc:title>113 HR 2747 ENR: To amend title 40, United States Code, to transfer certain functions from the Government Accountability Office to the Department of Labor relating to the processing of claims for the payment of workers who were not paid appropriate wages under certain provisions of such title.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>2747</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="113">One Hundred Thirteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and thirteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend title 40, United States Code, to transfer certain functions from the Government Accountability Office to the Department of Labor relating to the processing of claims for the payment of workers who were not paid appropriate wages under certain provisions of such title.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d167932e62" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d167932e72" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d167932e76" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authority of Comptroller General To Pay Wages and List Contractors Violating Contracts</inline>.—</heading><chapeau><ref href="/us/usc/t40/s3144">Section 3144 of title 40, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d167932e90" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s2/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in the section heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText><b>of Comptroller General</b></quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d167932e100" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s2/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in subsection (a)(1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Comptroller General</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Secretary of Labor</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d167932e111" identifier="/us/bill/113/hr/2747/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report of Violations and Withholding of Amounts for Unpaid Contracts and Liquidated Damages</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t40/s3703/b/3">Section 3703(b)(3) of title 40, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Comptroller General</quotedText>” both places it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Secretary of Labor</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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