[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3593-S3594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4539. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, and Ms. 
Mikulski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the 
bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,

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to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title VIII of division A, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 829K. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH EMPLOYERS THAT 
                   ENGAGE IN WAGE THEFT BY STEALING EMPLOYEES' 
                   WAGES.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 829H, the 
     Secretary of Defense may not enter into any contract 
     described in subsection (b) with any person or business that 
     the Labor Compliance Advisor of the Department of Defense 
     determines to have owed, during the 3-year period preceding 
     the request for proposals for the contract, employees, or 
     individuals who are former employees, a cumulative amount of 
     more than $100,000 in unpaid wages and associated damages 
     resulting from violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
     1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) as determined by the Secretary 
     of Labor or a court of competent jurisdiction.
       (b) Applicable Contract.--A contract described in this 
     subsection is any procurement contract for goods and 
     services, including construction, in which the estimated 
     value of the supplies acquired and services required exceeds 
     $500,000.
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