S 1864
116th Congress
Senate
Environmental Protection
Air quality
Building construction
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Public contracts and procurement
Buy Clean Transparency Act of 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 13, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jun 13, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Buy Clean Transparency Act of 2019
This bill requires federal contracting agencies to assess how the products they procure affect the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The term federal contracting agencies means the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The agencies must publish their assessments.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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