[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6534 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6534

To require the creation and maintenance of a MadeInAmerica.gov website.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2016

   Ms. Meng introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the creation and maintenance of a MadeInAmerica.gov website.

    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 ``MadeInAmerica.gov Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    (a) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
Commerce.
    (b) Made in America.--The term ``Made in America'' shall have the 
meaning prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to section 3 of this Act.

SEC. 3. MADEINAMERICA.GOV.

    (a) Website Creation.--The Secretary shall create and maintain a 
website named ``MadeInAmerica.gov''.
    (b) Website Features.--Such website shall--
            (1) publish a list of all products made in America;
            (2) publish a list of all companies that only make products 
        made in America;
            (3) publish contact information, including website 
        addresses, for manufacturers of products listed pursuant to 
        paragraph (1);
            (4) publish contact information, including website 
        addresses, for companies listed pursuant to paragraph (2);
            (5) provide direct links to online ordering pages for 
        products listed pursuant to paragraph (1); and
            (6) be searchable by product, company, type of product, and 
        type of company.
    (c) Website Inclusion.--The Secretary shall--
            (1) only publish such products, companies, contact 
        information, and order page information requested by a company;
            (2) create a form interested companies may complete in 
        order to satisfy the requirement in paragraph (1); and
            (3) make publicly available, in a conspicuous location on 
        the homepage of MadeInAmerica.gov, the form required by 
        paragraph (2).
    (d) Penalties.--
            (1) Any company found to have submitted false information 
        in order to secure product or company inclusion on 
        MadeInAmerica.gov shall be--
                    (A) fined not less than $10,000 for each false 
                statement; and
                    (B) barred from listing product or company 
                information on MadeInAmerica.gov--
                            (i) for not less than one year for the 
                        first offense;
                            (ii) for not less than five years for the 
                        second offense; and
                            (iii) permanently for the third offense.
            (2) Any penalty collected pursuant to this section shall be 
        used to operate and advertise MadeInAmerica.gov, and enact the 
        requirements of this Act.
    (e) Regulations.--The Secretary shall issue such regulations as are 
necessary to implement this Act.
    (f) Effective Date.--The website required by this Act shall be 
operational within two years of enactment of this Act.
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