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HR 687 111th Congress House

Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009

Official title: 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: February 23, 2009 Introduced by: Foxx, Virginia Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
Transportation and Public Works Public contracts and procurementPublic transitRoads and highwaysTransportation programs fundingWages and earnings
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
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Jan 27, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Jan 26, 2009
Referred to House Education and Labor
Jan 26, 2009
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.
Jan 26, 2009
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Jan 26, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action January 27, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009 - 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).

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2
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Latta, Robert E.
Ohio · Feb 23, 2009
 R
Sessions, Pete
Texas · Jan 26, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 687: Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-687/
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"H.R. 687: Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-687/.
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H.R. 687, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-687/.
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