BUY AMERICAN ACT

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: amend relative to certain waivers and domestic content percentage requirements and provide greater transparency regarding exceptions to domestic sourcing requirements (see H.R. 4812), H477 [17JA]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a competitive grant program to repair, improve, rehabilitate, or replace bridges and improve safety, efficiency, and reliability of movement of people and freight over bridge crossings (see S. 2279), S46 [4JA]

Federal agencies and departments: require publication of annual reports required under ‘‘Buy American Hire American’’ Executive order (see S. 3006), S3034 [6JN]

Government regulations: standardize and extend certain provisions (see H.R. 5137), H1340 [1MR]

GSA: establish BuyAmerican.gov website to collect and display information on Federal agencies’ requests for Buy American Act waivers (see S. 2284), S110 [9JA]

Requirements: strengthen (see H.R. 6907), H9089 [26SE]

Ships and vessels: expand domestic content requirements for certain shipboard components (see S. 2731), S2342 [23AP]

Remarks in House

Government regulations: standardize and extend certain provisions (H.R. 5137), H1496 [8MR]

Infrastructure: ensure any infrastructure plan provides for job creation, public investment, clean energy jobs, fair hiring and wage standards, and protection of Federal aid programs, the environment, and civil rights (H. Con. Res. 63), H4789, H4790 [6JN]