HR 7185
110th Congress
House
Transportation and Public Works
Construction industries
Construction workers
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Mass rapid transit
Minimum wages
Road construction
Transportation engineering
Wages
To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to repeal wage requirements applicable to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway and public transportation construction projects.
Introduced: September 27, 2008
Introduced by:
Foxx, Virginia
Republican
· North Carolina
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 28, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Sep 27, 2008
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
Sep 27, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to laborers and mechanics working on federal-aid highway construction projects and public transportation construction projects).
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Committees of jurisdiction
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