To amend title 10, United States Code, and title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act to require certain prospective government contractors to employ at least 50 percent of their employees in the United States.

September 17, 2003

Mr. WALSH (for himself, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. UPTON, Mr. QUINN, Mr. GOODE, Ms. KAPTUR, and Mr. CARSON of Oklahoma) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

To amend title 10, United States Code, and title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act to require certain prospective government contractors to employ at least 50 percent of their employees in the United States.

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 `American Manufacturing Jobs Retention Act of 2003'.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN PROSPECTIVE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO EMPLOY AT LEAST 50 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEES IN THE UNITED STATES.

(a) DEFENSE CONTRACTS- Section 2305 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

`(h) REQUIREMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES- (1) In the case of any contract for the procurement of goods and services to be entered into by a military department, the head of the military department may not consider a covered prospective contractor to be a responsible source unless the covered prospective contractor employs at least 50 percent of its employees in the United States.

`(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a prospective contractor is covered if at least 10 percent of its annual gross receipts, during the year preceding the year in which the contractor submits a bid or proposal for the contract concerned, was attributable to contracts with the Federal Government.'.

(b) CIVILIAN AGENCY CONTRACTS- Section 303B of title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253b) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

`(n) REQUIREMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES- (1) In the case of any contract for the procurement of goods and services to be entered into by an executive agency, the head of the executive agency may not consider a covered prospective contractor to be a responsible source unless the covered prospective contractor employs at least 50 percent of its employees in the United States.

`(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a prospective contractor is covered if at least 10 percent of its annual gross receipts, during the year preceding the year in which the contractor submits a bid or proposal for the contract concerned, was attributable to contracts with the Federal Government.'.

(c) IMPLEMENTATION- The amendments made by this section shall be implemented through revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

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