IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 123 

Directing legislative branch support offices to take certain actions to promote 

the procurement of goods and services from the AbilityOne program 

established under chapter 85 of title 41, United States Code (commonly 

known as the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act), and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2024 

Ms. CROCKETT (for herself, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. LOUDERMILK, and Mr. 

THOMPSON of California) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on House Administration 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Directing legislative branch support offices to take certain 

actions to promote the procurement of goods and services 

from the AbilityOne program established under chapter 

85 of title 41, United States Code (commonly known 

as the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act), and for other purposes. 

Whereas in 1971, Congress passed the Javits-Wagner-O’Day 

Act to advance employment opportunities for Americans 

who are blind or who have significant disabilities by requiring the Federal Government, including legislative entities, when seeking to procure a product or service, to 

first assess whether their needs can be met by products 

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cies and included on the AbilityOne Procurement List 

maintained by the AbilityOne Commission; and 

Whereas, as a result of the AbilityOne Program, tens of thousands of Americans who are blind or who have significant 

disabilities, including a large and growing number of returning veterans, are employed at competitive wages providing products and services to the Federal Government, 

greatly enhancing their self-sufficiency and providing critical career skills: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), 

3 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT OF ABILITYONE REPRESENTA4 TIVE. 

5 (a) DESIGNATION OF POSITION.—Not later than 30 

6 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, the 

7 head of each Legislative Branch Support Office shall des8 ignate an employee in the Office to serve in a position 

9 to be known as the ‘‘AbilityOne Representative’’. 

10 (b) DUTIES.—The employee serving as the 

11 AbilityOne Representative of a Legislative Branch Sup12 port Office shall carry out the following duties: 

13 (1) Promoting the purchase and use of 

14 AbilityOne products and services within the office. 

15 (2) Providing the data required for preparing 

16 the annual report required under section 2. 

17 (3) Ensuring compliance with AbilityOne Com18 mission regulations, as applicable. 


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1 (4) Serving as a liaison to Members of Con2 gress, AbilityOne Participating Agencies, the 

3 AbilityOne Commission, and the Commission’s des4 ignated central nonprofit agencies on matters in the 

5 Office which relate to the AbilityOne program. 

6 (5) Developing and monitoring the implementa7 tion of a written strategic plan for increasing pro8 curement by the Office from the AbilityOne pro9 gram. 

10 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT. 

11 Not later than January 1 of each calendar year, be12 ginning with 2025, the head of each Legislative Branch 

13 Support Office shall submit to Congress a report on— 

14 (1) the total amount spent on the procurement 

15 of products and services by the office during the pre16 vious fiscal year; 

17 (2) of the amount described in paragraph (1), 

18 the total amount spent on AbilityOne products and 

19 services; 

20 (3) of the products and services described in 

21 paragraph (1), a description of the products or serv22 ices which were purchased from the AbilityOne pro23 gram and which were not; 

24 (4) for each product and service described in 

25 paragraph (3) which was not purchased from the 


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1 AbilityOne program, an explanation of why the prod2 uct or service was procured from a source outside of 

3 the AbilityOne program; 

4 (5) qualitative information on efforts to in5 crease procurement through the AbilityOne program; 

6 and 

7 (6) qualitative information on any obstacles 

8 faced in increasing procurement from the AbilityOne 

9 program. 

10 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

11 In this resolution, the following definitions apply: 

12 (1) The term ‘‘AbilityOne Commission’’ means 

13 the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are 

14 Blind or Severely Disabled established under section 

15 8502 of title 41, United States Code. 

16 (2) The term ‘‘AbilityOne Participating Agen17 cy’’ means a nonprofit agency for the blind or a non18 profit agency employing persons with significant dis19 abilities which is authorized by the AbilityOne Com20 mission to provide products or services pursuant to 

21 chapter 85 of title 41, United States Code (com22 monly known as the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act), and 

23 associated regulations. 

24 (3) The term ‘‘AbilityOne Procurement List’’ 

25 means the list of products and services determined 


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1 by the AbilityOne Commission to be suitable to be 

2 procured by the Federal Government from 

3 AbilityOne Participating Agencies pursuant to sec4 tion 8503 of title 41, United States Code. 

5 (4) The term ‘‘AbilityOne program’’ means the 

6 program established under chapter 85 of title 41, 

7 United States Code (commonly known as the Javits8 Wagner-O’Day Act). 

9 (5) The term ‘‘Legislative Branch Support Of10 fice’’ means an office for which appropriations for 

11 salaries and expenses for a fiscal year are provided 

12 by the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act for 

13 such fiscal year, except that such term does not in14 clude any office of the House of Representatives or 

15 Senate. 

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