[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1817 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1817

To suspend the Davis-Bacon wage rate requirements for Federal contracts 
                 in areas declared national disasters.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 4, 2005

  Mr. DeMint introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To suspend the Davis-Bacon wage rate requirements for Federal contracts 
                 in areas declared national disasters.

    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 ``Cleanup and Reconstruction 
Enhancement Act'' or ``CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF DAVIS-BACON WAGE REQUIREMENTS IN NATIONAL 
              DISASTER AREAS.

    Section 3147 of title 40, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ``In any area that the President determines 
to be a major disaster under section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), the 
provisions of this subchapter shall not apply for a period of 1 year 
from the date on which the President makes such determination.''.
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