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Davis-Bacon Enforcement Act of 1999

Introduced: February 3, 1999 See on congress.gov
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Feb 26, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Feb 17, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
Feb 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.
Feb 3, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now February 26, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · May 4, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 527: Davis-Bacon Enforcement Act of 1999. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-527/
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