[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5898 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5898

To amend the Buy American Act to require each department or independent 
     establishment to conduct an annual audit of its contracts for 
           compliance with such Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2010

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Buy American Act to require each department or independent 
     establishment to conduct an annual audit of its contracts for 
           compliance with such 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 ``Buy America Accountability Act of 
2010''.

SEC. 2. AUDIT OF CONTRACTS REQUIRED.

    Section 2 of the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Audit of Contracts Required.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the end of 
        a fiscal year, the head of each department or independent 
        establishment shall submit to Congress a report that contains 
        an evaluation performed by such department or independent 
        establishment of contractor compliance with the provisions of 
        this Act for at least 10 percent of the contracts awarded by 
        the department or independent establishment during that fiscal 
        year for the procurement of articles, materials, or supplies.
            ``(2) Public availability.--The head of each Federal agency 
        submitting a report under paragraph (1) shall make the report 
        publicly available to the maximum extent practicable.
            ``(3) Exception for the intelligence community.--The report 
        required under this subsection shall not cover acquisitions 
        made by an agency, or component thereof, that is an element of 
        the intelligence community as specified in, or designated 
        under, section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
        U.S.C. 401a(4)).''.
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