[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4221 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4221

  To amend the Service Contract Act of 1965 to require entities that 
 enter into certain services contracts with the Federal Government or 
  the District of Columbia to offer the employees that carry out the 
     services before the award of a contract the right to continue 
              employment after the award of the contract.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2000

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Service Contract Act of 1965 to require entities that 
 enter into certain services contracts with the Federal Government or 
  the District of Columbia to offer the employees that carry out the 
     services before the award of a contract the right to continue 
              employment after the award of the contract.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL TO CERTAIN 
              SERVICE EMPLOYEES.

    Section 2 of the Service Contract Act of 1965 (41 U.S.C. 351) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) With respect to any contract (and any bid specification 
therefore) entered into by the United States or the District of 
Columbia, except as described in section 7, whether negotiated or 
advertised, the principal purpose of which is to furnish services in 
the United States through the use of service employees, in any case in 
which the total of the amount of the revenue generated by such services 
during the year prior to the award of the contract and the amount of 
the value of the contract is in excess of $100,000, the contractor 
shall offer to the employees that are employed for the purpose of 
carrying out such services before the award of the contract a right of 
first refusal to continue employment for such purpose after the award 
of the contract.''.
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