[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5637 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5637

 To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
  and title 10, United States Code, to allow contracting officers to 
 consider information regarding domestic employment before awarding a 
               Federal contract, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2010

  Mr. Murphy of Connecticut (for himself, Mr. Jones, Ms. Sutton, Mr. 
 Critz, Mr. Schauer, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Lipinski, and Mr. Manzullo) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, 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 Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
  and title 10, United States Code, to allow contracting officers to 
 consider information regarding domestic employment before awarding a 
               Federal contract, 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 ``American Jobs Matter Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO 
              EFFECT ON DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT OF AWARD OF FEDERAL 
              CONTRACTS.

    (a) Civilian Agency Contracts.--Section 303A of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253a) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f)(1) An executive agency, in issuing a solicitation for 
competitive proposals, shall state in the solicitation that the offeror 
may submit information (in this subsection referred to as a `jobs 
impact statement') with its offer related to the effects on employment 
within the United States of the contract if it is awarded to the 
offeror.
    ``(2) The information that may be included in a jobs impact 
statement may include the following:
            ``(A) The number of jobs expected to be created in the 
        United States, or the number of jobs retained that otherwise 
        would be lost, if the contract is awarded to the offeror.
            ``(B) The number of jobs created or retained in the United 
        States by the subcontractors expected to be used by the offeror 
        in the performance of the contract.
            ``(C) A guarantee from the offeror that jobs created or 
        retained in the United States will not be moved outside the 
        United States after award of the contract.
    ``(3) The contracting officer may consider the information in the 
jobs impact statement in the evaluation of the offer and may request 
further information from the offeror in order to verify the accuracy of 
any such information submitted.
    ``(4) The head of each executive agency shall submit to Congress an 
annual report on the frequency of use within the agency of jobs impact 
statements in the evaluation of competitive proposals.''.
    (b) Defense Contracts.--Section 2305(a) of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(6)(A) The head of an agency, in issuing a solicitation for 
competitive proposals, shall state in the solicitation that the offeror 
may submit information (in this paragraph referred to as a `jobs impact 
statement') with its offer related to the effects on employment within 
the United States of the contract if it is awarded to the offeror.
    ``(B) The information that may be included in a jobs impact 
statement may include the following:
            ``(i) The number of jobs expected to be created in the 
        United States, or the number of jobs retained that otherwise 
        would be lost, if the contract is awarded to the offeror.
            ``(ii) The number of jobs created or retained in the United 
        States by the subcontractors expected to be used by the offeror 
        in the performance of the contract.
            ``(iii) A guarantee from the offeror that jobs created or 
        retained in the United States will not be moved outside the 
        United States after award of the contract.
    ``(C) The contracting officer may consider the information in the 
jobs impact statement in the evaluation of the offer and may request 
further information from the offeror in order to verify the accuracy of 
any such information submitted.
    ``(D) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress an annual 
report on the frequency of use within the Department of Defense of jobs 
impact statements in the evaluation of competitive proposals.''.
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