[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2396 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2396

 To provide that the Davis-Bacon Act shall not apply to contracts for 
         the construction and repair of schools and libraries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1999

 Mr. Cunningham (for himself, Mr. Goss, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, 
 Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Istook, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. 
Pitts, Mr. Collins, Mr. Riley, Mr. Paul, Mr. Gary Miller of California, 
 and Mr. Tiahrt) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
              the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the Davis-Bacon Act shall not apply to contracts for 
         the construction and repair of schools and libraries.

    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 ``School and Library Construction 
Affordability Act''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of the amendments made by this Act is--
            (1) to amend the Act of March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C. 276a et 
        seq.) (commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon Act) to make it 
        inapplicable to contracts for school or library construction 
        and repair and thereby reduce school construction and repair 
        costs by 5 to 38 percent and thereby saving funds that can be 
        used to improve education, repair and construct modern schools 
        and libraries, and provide tax relief; and
            (2) to harmonize Federal laws with a majority of the 
        States.

SEC. 3. DAVIS-BACON ACT.

    The first section of the Act of March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C. 276a) 
(commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon Act) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to any contract which is 
entered into to construct or repair facilities of an educational agency 
or library.''.

SEC. 4. COPELAND ACT.

    Section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934 (40 U.S.C. 276c) (commonly 
referred to as the ``Copeland Act'') is amended by adding at the end 
the following: ``This section does not apply to any contractor or 
subcontractor which is engaged in the construction or repair of 
facilities of an educational agency or library.

SEC. 5. CONSTRUCTION.

    Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act may be 
construed to diminish in any way the quality of facility construction 
or repair or to affect Federal, State, and local guidelines, codes, and 
regulations relating to construction or repair quality.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by sections 1 and 2 shall take effect 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act but shall not affect any 
contract in existence on such date of enactment or made pursuant to 
invitation for bids outstanding on such date of enactment.
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