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        <dc:title>Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 113–50</citableAs>
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        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 113–50</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To amend title 40, United States Code, to transfer certain functions from the Government Accountability Office to the Department of Labor relating to the processing of claims for the payment of workers who were not paid appropriate wages under certain provisions of such title.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t40/s101">40 U.S.C. 101 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading>
            <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote"><inline style="-uslm-dtd:short-title">Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act</inline></shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. </heading>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Authority of Comptroller General To Pay Wages and List Contractors Violating Contracts.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 3144 of title 40, United States Code, is amended—</chapeau>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the section heading, by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote"><headingText style="-uslm-dtd:header-in-text">of Comptroller General</headingText></quotedText>”; and</content>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in subsection (a)(1), by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Comptroller General</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Secretary of Labor</quotedText>”.</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Report of Violations and Withholding of Amounts for Unpaid Contracts and Liquidated Damages.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 3703(b)(3) of title 40, United States Code, is amended by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Comptroller General</quotedText>” both places it appears and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Secretary of Labor</quotedText>”.</content>
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