[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1200 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1200

 To require that certain prevailing wage determinations be made using 
             representative statistical sample techniques.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2017

   Mr. Flake introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that certain prevailing wage determinations be made using 
             representative statistical sample techniques.

    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 ``Opportunity in Federal Construction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. WAGE DETERMINATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3142(b) of title 40, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``, acting through the Bureau of Labor 
        Statistics,'' after ``Secretary of Labor''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``, using surveys carried out by the Bureau of Labor 
        Statistics that use proper representative statistical sampling 
        techniques''.
    (b) Rulemaking.--The Secretary of Labor shall issue regulations to 
carry out the amendments made by subsection (a).

SEC. 3. GAO REPORT.

    (a) Study.--Not later than one year after the effective date of the 
regulations issued pursuant to section 2(b), the Comptroller General of 
the United States shall commence a study of the implementation of such 
regulations.
    (b) Report.--The Comptroller General shall submit a report to 
Congress containing the results of the study described in subsection 
(a).
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