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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5637 

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 

and title 10, United States Code, to allow contracting officers to consider 

information regarding domestic employment before awarding a Federal 

contract, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 29, 2010 

Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut (for himself, Mr. JONES, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. 

CRITZ, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. MANZULLO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 

Committee on Armed Services, 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 

A BILL 

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services 

Act of 1949 and title 10, United States Code, to allow 

contracting officers to consider information regarding domestic employment before awarding a Federal contract, 

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 ‘‘American Jobs Matter 

5 Act of 2010’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMA2 TION RELATING TO EFFECT ON DOMESTIC 

3 EMPLOYMENT OF AWARD OF FEDERAL CON4 TRACTS. 

5 (a) CIVILIAN AGENCY CONTRACTS.—Section 303A of 

6 the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 

7 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253a) is amended by adding at the end 

8 the following new subsection: 

9 ‘‘(f)(1) An executive agency, in issuing a solicitation 

10 for competitive proposals, shall state in the solicitation 

11 that the offeror may submit information (in this sub12 section referred to as a ‘jobs impact statement’) with its 

13 offer related to the effects on employment within the 

14 United States of the contract if it is awarded to the offer15 or. 

16 ‘‘(2) The information that may be included in a jobs 

17 impact statement may include the following: 

18 ‘‘(A) The number of jobs expected to be created 

19 in the United States, or the number of jobs retained 

20 that otherwise would be lost, if the contract is 

21 awarded to the offeror. 

22 ‘‘(B) The number of jobs created or retained in 

23 the United States by the subcontractors expected to 

24 be used by the offeror in the performance of the con25 tract. 


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1 ‘‘(C) A guarantee from the offeror that jobs 

2 created or retained in the United States will not be 

3 moved outside the United States after award of the 

4 contract. 

5 ‘‘(3) The contracting officer may consider the infor6 mation in the jobs impact statement in the evaluation of 

7 the offer and may request further information from the 

8 offeror in order to verify the accuracy of any such informa9 tion submitted. 

10 ‘‘(4) The head of each executive agency shall submit 

11 to Congress an annual report on the frequency of use with12 in the agency of jobs impact statements in the evaluation 

13 of competitive proposals.’’. 

14 (b) DEFENSE CONTRACTS.—Section 2305(a) of title 

15 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 

16 the following new paragraph: 

17 ‘‘(6)(A) The head of an agency, in issuing a solicita18 tion for competitive proposals, shall state in the solicita19 tion that the offeror may submit information (in this para20 graph referred to as a ‘jobs impact statement’) with its 

21 offer related to the effects on employment within the 

22 United States of the contract if it is awarded to the offer23 or. 

24 ‘‘(B) The information that may be included in a jobs 

25 impact statement may include the following: 


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1 ‘‘(i) The number of jobs expected to be created 

2 in the United States, or the number of jobs retained 

3 that otherwise would be lost, if the contract is 

4 awarded to the offeror. 

5 ‘‘(ii) The number of jobs created or retained in 

6 the United States by the subcontractors expected to 

7 be used by the offeror in the performance of the con8 tract. 

9 ‘‘(iii) A guarantee from the offeror that jobs 

10 created or retained in the United States will not be 

11 moved outside the United States after award of the 

12 contract. 

13 ‘‘(C) The contracting officer may consider the infor14 mation in the jobs impact statement in the evaluation of 

15 the offer and may request further information from the 

16 offeror in order to verify the accuracy of any such informa17 tion submitted. 

18 ‘‘(D) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Con19 gress an annual report on the frequency of use within the 

20 Department of Defense of jobs impact statements in the 

21 evaluation of competitive proposals.’’. 

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