[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5545 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5545

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that projects funded 
    through the National Institutes of Health comply with wage rate 
 requirements commonly referred to as the ``Davis-Bacon Act'', and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2006

   Mr. Gene Green of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
   the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that projects funded 
    through the National Institutes of Health comply with wage rate 
 requirements commonly referred to as the ``Davis-Bacon Act'', and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``___ Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. WAGE RATE REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH 
              NIH.

    Part H of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 498D. WAGE RATE REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO PROJECTS FUNDED 
              THROUGH NIH.

    ``The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require that 
each entity that applies to the National Institutes of Health or any 
component thereof for a loan, loan guarantee, grant, contract, or 
cooperative agreement for any project shall include in its application 
reasonable assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by 
contractors or subcontractors in the performance of construction or 
modernization on the project will be paid wages at rates not less than 
those prevailing on similar work in the locality as determined by the 
Secretary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of 
part A of subtitle II of title 40, United States Code (commonly 
referred to as the `Davis-Bacon Act').''.
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