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H.R.527
Sponsor: Rep Andrews, Robert E.(introduced 2/3/1999)
Latest Major Action: 2/26/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Title: To amend the Davis-Bacon Act to provide that a contractor under that Act who has repeated violations of the Act shall have its contract with the United States canceled and to require the disclosure under freedom of information provisions of Federal law of certain payroll information under contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act.

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TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)

SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Davis-Bacon Enforcement Act of 1999
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To amend the Davis-Bacon Act to provide that a contractor under that Act who has repeated violations of the Act shall have its contract with the United States canceled and to require the disclosure under freedom of information provisions of Federal law of certain payroll information under contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act.

STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)

2/3/1999:

Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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.

2/3/1999:

Referred to House Education and the Workforce

2/26/1999:: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

2/3/1999:

Referred to House Government Reform

2/17/1999:: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.

COMMITTEE(S):

Committee/Subcommittee: Activity:

House Education and the Workforce Referral

Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Referral

House Government Reform Referral

Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology (GMIT) Referral

RELATED BILL DETAILS:

***NONE***

AMENDMENT(S):

***NONE***

COSPONSORS(5), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)

Rep Brady, Robert - 4/14/1999 Rep Crowley, Joseph - 4/21/1999

Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 6/22/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 4/15/1999

Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 5/4/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
2/3/1999--Introduced.

Davis-Bacon Enforcement Act of 1999 - Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to direct the Secretary of Labor, upon determining that a Federal contractor has established a pattern of violations of such Act, to cancel the contract and make such contractor ineligible to receive a Federal contract for a ten-year period, unless the contractor is able to show that such violations were not intentional but were the result of simple and unsystematic error.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act to require the disclosure of certain payroll information under contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act.

Committee/Subcommittee:		Activity:
House Education and the Workforce		Referral
	Subcommittee on Workforce Protections	Referral
House Government Reform		Referral
	Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology (GMIT)	Referral

Rep Brady, Robert - 4/14/1999	Rep Crowley, Joseph - 4/21/1999
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 6/22/1999	Rep Filner, Bob - 4/15/1999
Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 5/4/1999