[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3037 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3037

   To ensure that all Federal agencies consider the environmentally 
 preferable features and practices of a vendor in purchases of meeting 
                        and conference services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2007

 Ms. Schwartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To ensure that all Federal agencies consider the environmentally 
 preferable features and practices of a vendor in purchases of meeting 
                        and conference services.

    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 ``Green Meetings Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PURCHASE OF MEETING AND CONFERENCE SERVICES.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy shall ensure that 
the Federal Acquisition Regulation is revised to require each Federal 
agency to consider, in each purchase of meeting and conference 
services, the environmentally preferable features and practices of a 
vendor in a manner substantially similar to that required of the 
Environmental Protection Agency in section 1523.703-1 (relating to 
acquisition of environmentally preferable meeting and conference 
services) and section 1552.223-71 (relating to EPA Green Meetings and 
Conferences) of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, as set forth in 
the Environmental Protection Agency final rule published on pages 18401 
through 18404 of volume 72, Federal Register (April 12, 2007).

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the terms ``environmentally preferable'' and ``Federal 
        agency'' have the meanings given them by section 2.101 of the 
        Federal Acquisition Regulation; and
            (2) the term ``meeting and conference services'' means the 
        use of off-site commercial facilities for a Federal agency 
        event, including an event for a meeting, conference, training 
        session, or other purpose.
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