[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4047 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4047

 To require solicitations for Federal procurement contracts to include 
  information about the applicability of Buy American law and whether 
foreign goods may be used to fulfill the requirements of the contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2012

  Mr. Murphy of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require solicitations for Federal procurement contracts to include 
  information about the applicability of Buy American law and whether 
foreign goods may be used to fulfill the requirements of the contracts.

    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 ``Full Disclosure in Federal 
Contracting Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BUY AMERICAN LAW AND 
              ACCEPTABLE FOREIGN GOODS TO BE INCLUDED IN CERTAIN 
              FEDERAL CONTRACT SOLICITATIONS.

    (a) Requirement.--In any solicitation for a Federal contract for 
the procurement of goods, the Federal agency issuing the solicitation 
shall include the following information:
            (1) A statement of--
                    (A) whether chapter 83 of title 41, United States 
                Code (popularly known as the ``Buy American Act''), 
                applies or does not apply to the contract; and
                    (B) if such chapter 83 does not apply to the 
                contract, the reasons why such chapter does not apply, 
                including a description of any applicable exception or 
                waiver of such chapter and the law or regulation 
                providing such exception or waiver.
            (2) Whether such chapter 83 applies or does not apply--
                    (A) a statement of whether goods from foreign 
                countries would be acceptable as end products for 
                purposes of fulfilling the requirements of the 
                contract; and
                    (B) a list of all the foreign countries whose goods 
                would be acceptable as end products for such purposes.
    (b) Effective Date.--This Act shall apply to solicitations for 
contracts issued after the date occurring 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
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