[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 384 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 384

To authorize the Secretary of Defense to waive certain domestic source 
          or content requirements in the procurement of items.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 1999

  Mr. McCain introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to waive certain domestic source 
          or content requirements in the procurement of items.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO WAIVE DOMESTIC SOURCE OR CONTENT REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Authority.--Chapter 141 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 2410n. Authority to waive domestic source and content 
              requirements
    ``(a) Authority.--Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of 
Defense may waive any domestic source requirement or domestic content 
requirement referred to in subsection (b) and thereby authorize the 
procurement of items that are grown, reprocessed, reused, produced, or 
manufactured--
            ``(1) outside the United States or its possessions; or
            ``(2) in the United States or its possessions from 
        components grown, reprocessed, reused, produced, or 
        manufactured outside the United States or its possessions.
    ``(b) Covered Requirements.--For purposes of this section:
            ``(1) A domestic source requirement is any requirement 
        under law that the Department of Defense must satisfy its needs 
        for an item by procuring an item that is grown, reprocessed, 
        reused, produced, or manufactured in the United States, its 
        possessions, or a part of the national technology and 
        industrial base.
            ``(2) A domestic content requirement is any requirement 
        under law that the Department must satisfy its needs for an 
        item by procuring an item produced partly or wholly from 
        components grown, reprocessed, reused, produced, or 
        manufactured in the United States or its possessions.
    ``(c) Limitation.--The Secretary may waive a domestic source 
requirement or domestic content requirement under subsection (a) only 
if the Secretary determines that one or more of the conditions set 
forth in section 2534(d) of this title apply with respect to the 
procurement of the items concerned.
    ``(d) Relationship to Other Waiver Authority.--The authority under 
subsection (a) to waive a domestic source requirement or domestic 
content requirement is in addition to any other authority to waive such 
requirement.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding the adding at the end following new 
item:

``2410n. Authority to waive domestic source or content requirements.''.
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