3.0.0 920 2026-06-11T20:50:12Z 2026-06-11T20:50:12Z Senate S S 2025-03-10 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/920 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-03-10T17:26:52Z 2025-03-10 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-03-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001089 Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] Josh Hawley R MO N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2025-03-10 True Government Operations and Politics Government Operations and Politics 2025-05-20T15:03:17Z 00 2025-03-10 Introduced in Senate 2026-06-11T20:50:07Z Preventing Child Labor Exploitation in Federal Contracting Act

This bill prohibits federal agencies from awarding contracts to entities and offerors that (1) admit to having violated federal child labor laws, and (2) have failed to take corrective action. The bill also increases civil penalties for violations of specified child labor provisions.

Under the bill, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council must amend regulations to require

  • any entity that enters into a contract with a federal agency to annually represent whether such entity has been determined to have violated federal child labor laws in the preceding three years, and
  • any offeror, as well as each subcontractor or service provider to be used in performing the offeror's contract or considered for the performance of such contract, to certify whether it has been determined to have violated federal child labor laws in the preceding three years.

Those who affirm they have violated child labor laws must update their representation or certification regarding any corrective measures they have taken. 

Federal agencies are prohibited from awarding contracts to entities or offerors (including applicable subcontractors or service providers) that affirm they have violated federal child labor law and that have failed to implement required corrective measures.

The Department of Labor must annually prepare a list of entities, offerors, subcontractors, and service providers that are subject to this prohibition and conduct suspension and debarment proceedings against them. Federal agencies may not solicit offers, award contracts, or consent to subcontracts with those listed for at least four years.

]]> Preventing Child Labor Exploitation in Federal Contracting Act Display Title 45 Preventing Child Labor Exploitation in Federal Contracting Act 2025-03-27T03:23:24Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Preventing Child Labor Exploitation in Federal Contracting Act 2025-03-27T03:23:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to ensure that Federal contractors comply with child labor laws, and for other purposes. 2025-03-27T03:18:27Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-03-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s920is/xml/BILLS-119s920is.xml 2025-03-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.