US Congress House Bill 5073 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on November 13 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-11-19 - Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires an employer to be scored on worker-friendliness before entering into a federal contract and establishes a contracting preference for such score. Specifically, each executive agency shall ensure that (1) contracting officers consider the score at least approximately equal in importance to cost or price, and (2) an offeror for a prime contract does not subcontract with any entity that violates specified labor laws and executive orders. The Department of Labor, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, shall, among other things develop a method to score the worker-friendliness of each prospective contractor or subcontractor that submits a bid for a federal contract that takes into account specified factors, such as whether the employer provides paid overtime for any work that exceeds 40 hours per work week; provide each executive agency with recommendations on how to evaluate such a score in making contracting decisions; identify best practices for the implementation of the scoring process; create a process for an employer to appeal a score; review each score every five years to ensure that such score is up-to-date; and enable employers that are not federal contractors to request such a score for purposes of promoting worker-friendly policies.

A Just Society: The Uplift Our Workers Act

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Sylvia Garcia [D-TX]	Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Jesus Garcia [D-IL]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-19	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2019-11-13	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
2019-11-13	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
2019-11-13	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5073/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5073/BILLS-116hr5073ih.pdf