[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 546 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 546

 To prohibit discrimination in contracting with potential contractors 
  and subcontractors in federally funded construction projects on the 
basis of certain labor relations policies of the potential contractors 
                          and subcontractors.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Nickles (for himself and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit discrimination in contracting with potential contractors 
  and subcontractors in federally funded construction projects on the 
basis of certain labor relations policies of the potential contractors 
                          and subcontractors.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Construction Equity Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN LABOR RELATIONS POLICIES OF OFFERORS 
              ON CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.

    (a) Prohibition.--The Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 
U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

   ``prohibition regarding consideration of certain labor relations 
             policies of offerors on construction contracts

    ``Sec. 29. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
person may be denied a contract or subcontract described in subsection 
(b), or participation in such a contract or subcontract, in whole or in 
part on the basis of that person's policy regarding entering into or 
adhering to a collective bargaining agreement or any similar agreement.
    ``(b) Subsection (a) applies to a construction contract entered 
into by an executive agency, a contract for any other construction 
funded in whole or in part with funds provided by the Federal 
Government, and any subcontract under such a contract.
    ``(c) The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall include provisions 
for the enforcement of the prohibition in subsection (a).
    ``(d) For the purposes of this section, the term `construction' 
includes rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, extension, and repair 
of buildings, highways, or other improvements to real property.''.
    (b) Definition.--Section 4 of such Act (41 U.S.C. 2302) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking out ``and'' at the end of paragraph (10);
            (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (11) 
        and inserting in lieu thereof ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(12) The term `Federal Acquisition Regulation' means the 
        Federal Acquisition Regulation issued pursuant to section 
        25(c)(1).''.

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