[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1212 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1212

 To amend section 1126 of title 41, United States Code, to provide for 
  an exception for failure to deliver goods or complete work due to a 
            lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2019

  Mr. Thompson of California introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 1126 of title 41, United States Code, to provide for 
  an exception for failure to deliver goods or complete work due to a 
            lapse in appropriations, 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 ``Federal Contract Deadline Fairness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FOR FAILURE TO DELIVER GOODS OR COMPLETE WORK DUE TO 
              LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1126 of title 41, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Exception for Failure To Deliver Goods or Complete Work Due 
to Lapse in Appropriations.--If the head of an executive agency 
determines that a contractor failed by reason of a lapse in 
appropriations in the Federal Government to deliver goods or complete 
work under a contract with the agency by the date or within the time 
period imposed by the contract any information relating to such failure 
may not be--
            ``(1) included in any past performance database used by 
        executive agencies for making source selection decisions; or
            ``(2) evaluated unfavorably on the factor of past contract 
        performance.''.
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