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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8417 

To require congressional notice of the cancellation or termination of contracts 

by the Department of Defense involving certain numbers of employees 

of contractors, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 15, 2024 

Mr. VASQUEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To require congressional notice of the cancellation or termination of contracts by the Department of Defense involving certain numbers of employees of contractors, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Installation Job 

5 Protection Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NOTICE OF CONTRACT CANCELLATION OR TERMI2 NATION RELATING TO REMOTE OR ISOLATED 

3 INSTALLATIONS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 365 of title 10, United 

5 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol6 lowing new section: 

7 ‘‘§ 4705. Notice of contract cancellation or termi8 nation relating to remote or isolated in9 stallations 

10 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by subsection 

11 (b), not later than 30 days prior to the Secretary or any 

12 other official of an element of the Department of Defense 

13 cancelling or terminating a contract, the Secretary shall 

14 submit to Congress a notice of such cancellation or termi15 nation if such cancellation or termination involves a reduc16 tion in employment of not fewer than— 

17 ‘‘(1) 50 remote or isolated installation con18 tractor employees; or 

19 ‘‘(2) 100 employees of contractors, including re20 mote or isolated installation contractor employees. 

21 ‘‘(b) WAIVER.—(1) The Secretary may waive sub22 section (a) with respect to the cancellation or termination 

23 of a contract if the Secretary determines that such waiver 

24 is in the interest of national security. 

25 ‘‘(2) If the Secretary waives subsection (a) with re26 spect to the cancellation or termination of a contract, the 


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1 Secretary shall submit the notice required by such sub2 section with respect to such cancellation or termination 

3 not later than one week after such cancellation or termi4 nation. 

5 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

6 ‘‘(1) The term ‘military installation’ has the 

7 meaning given such term in section 2801(c) of this 

8 title. 

9 ‘‘(2) The term ‘remote or isolated installation’ 

10 means a military installation that is a remote mili11 tary installation, as determined by the Secretary 

12 pursuant to the policy required by section 565 of the 

13 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

14 2022 (Public Law 117–81; 135 Stat. 1749; 10 

15 U.S.C. 1781b note). 

16 ‘‘(3) The term ‘remote or isolated installation 

17 contractor employee’ means an individual who— 

18 ‘‘(A) is an employee of a contractor; 

19 ‘‘(B) as such an employee, provides goods 

20 or services to a remote or isolated installation; 

21 and 

22 ‘‘(C) resides in the same geographic area 

23 as such remote or isolated installation. 

24 ‘‘(4) The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary 

25 of Defense.’’. 


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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec2 tions for chapter 365 of title 10, United States Code, is 

3 amended by adding at the end the following new item: 

‘‘4705. Notice of contract cancellation or termination relating to remote or isolated installations.’’. 

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