S 1785
114th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Building construction
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Labor standards
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 16, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jul 16, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works).
States that references in any law to a wage requirement of the Davis-Bacon Act shall be null and void.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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