[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7097 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7097

To amend title 23, United States Code, to authorize States to implement 
  an exchange program for certain Federal funds for subrecipients of 
                highway funding, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2020

Ms. Finkenauer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to authorize States to implement 
  an exchange program for certain Federal funds for subrecipients of 
                highway funding, 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 ``Stop Swaps, Protect Local Jobs 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROJECT APPROVAL AND OVERSIGHT.

    Section 106(g) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Federal funding exchange programs.--A State may 
        implement a program under which a subrecipient has the option 
        to exchange Federal funds allocated to such subrecipient in 
        accordance with the requirements of this title for State or 
        local funds if the State certifies to the Secretary that the 
        State has prevailing wage and domestic content requirements 
        that are comparable to the requirements under section 113 and 
        313 and that such requirements shall apply to projects carried 
        out using such funds if such projects would have been subject 
        to the requirements of sections 113 and 313 if such projects 
        were carried out using Federal funds.''.
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