I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 479 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require contracting officers to 
consider information regarding domestic employment before awarding 
a Federal defense contract, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 22, 2015 
Ms. ESTY (for herself and Mrs. BUSTOS) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require con-
tracting officers to consider information regarding do-
mestic employment before awarding a Federal defense 
contract, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Jobs Matter 
Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMA-
TION RELATING TO EFFECT ON DOMESTIC 
EMPLOYMENT OF AWARD OF FEDERAL DE-
FENSE CONTRACTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2305(a)(3) of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C)(i) In prescribing the evaluation factors to be in-
cluded in each solicitation for competitive proposals for 
covered contracts, an agency shall include the effects on 
employment within the United States of the contract as 
an evaluation factor that must be considered in the evalua-
tion of proposals. 
‘‘(ii) In this subparagraph, the term ‘covered con-
tract’ means— 
‘‘(I) a contract in excess of $1,000,000 for the 
procurement of manufactured goods; 
‘‘(II) a contract in excess of $1,000,000 for the 
procurement of goods or services listed in the report 
of industrial base capabilities required by section 
2504 of title 10; and 
‘‘(III) a contract in excess of $1,000,000 for 
the procurement of any item procured as part of a 
major defense acquisition program. 
‘‘(iii) The head of an agency, in issuing a solicitation 
for competitive proposals, shall state in the solicitation 
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that the agency may consider, and in the case of a covered 
contract will consider as an evaluation factor under sub-
paragraph (A), information (in this subsection referred to 
as a ‘jobs impact statement’) that the offeror includes in 
its offer related to the effects on employment within the 
United States of the contract if it is awarded to the offer-
or. 
‘‘(iv) The information that may be included in a jobs 
impact statement may include the following: 
‘‘(I) The number of jobs expected to be created 
or retained in the United States if the contract is 
awarded to the offeror. 
‘‘(II) The number of jobs created or retained in 
the United States by the subcontractors expected to 
be used by the offeror in the performance of the con-
tract. 
‘‘(III) A guarantee from the offeror that jobs 
created or retained in the United States will not be 
moved outside the United States after award of the 
contract unless doing so is required to provide the 
goods or services stipulated in the contract or is in 
the best interest of the Federal Government. 
‘‘(v) The contracting officer may consider, and in the 
case of a covered contract will consider, the information 
in the jobs impact statement in the evaluation of the offer 
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and may request further information from the offeror in 
order to verify the accuracy of any such information sub-
mitted. 
‘‘(vi) In the case of a contract awarded to an offeror 
that submitted a jobs impact statement with the offer for 
the contract, the agency shall, not later than one year 
after the award of the contract and annually thereafter 
for the duration of the contract or contract extension, as-
sess the accuracy of the jobs impact statement. 
‘‘(vii) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Con-
gress an annual report on the frequency of use within the 
Department of Defense of jobs impact statements in the 
evaluation of competitive proposals. 
‘‘(viii)(I) In any contract awarded to an offeror that 
submitted a jobs impact statement with its offer in re-
sponse to the solicitation for proposals for the contract, 
the agency shall track the number of jobs created or re-
tained during the performance of the contract. 
‘‘(II) If the number of jobs that the agency estimates 
will be created (by using the jobs impact statement) sig-
nificantly exceeds the number of jobs created or retained, 
then the agency may consider this as a factor that affects 
a contractor’s past performance in the award of future 
contracts. 
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