[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4729 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4729

 To require debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of ``Made 
                          in America'' labels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2014

Mr. Grayson (for himself and Ms. Shea-Porter) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of ``Made 
                          in America'' labels.

    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 ``Prohibiting False `Made in America' 
Claims Act''.

SEC. 2. DEBARMENT REQUIRED OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF FRAUDULENT USE OF 
              ``MADE IN AMERICA'' LABELS.

    (a) Debarment Required.--Subsection (a) of section 2410f of title 
10, United States Code, is amended by striking ``the Secretary shall'' 
and all that follows through the period and inserting ``the person 
shall be debarred from contracting with the Department of Defense 
unless the Secretary waives the debarment under subsection (b).''.
    (b) Waiver Authority and Notification Requirement.--Section 2410f 
of such title is further amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
        subsections:
    ``(b) Waiver for National Security.--The Secretary may waive a 
debarment required by subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that 
the exercise of such a waiver would be in the national security 
interests of the United States.
    ``(c) Notification.--The Secretary shall notify the congressional 
defense committees annually, not later than March 1 of each year, of 
any exercise of the waiver authority under subsection (b).''.
    (c) Technical Amendments.--Section 2410f of such title is further 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``Debarment Required.--
        '' after ``(a)''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), as redesignated by subsection (b), 
        by inserting ``Definition.--'' before ``In this section''.
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