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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3134
To amend title 10, United States Code, and title III of the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act to require certain prospective govern-
ment contractors to employ at least 50 percent of their employees in 
the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2003
Mr. WALSH (for himself, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. 
GILLMOR, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. UPTON, Mr. QUINN, Mr. GOODE, Ms. 
KAPTUR, and Mr. CARSON of Oklahoma) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in ad-
dition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subse-
quently 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 title 10, United States Code, and title III of 
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
to require certain prospective government contractors to 
employ at least 50 percent of their employees in the 
United States.
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 Manufac-
turing Jobs Retention Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN PROSPECTIVE GOV-
ERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO EMPLOY AT 
LEAST 50 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEES IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 
(a) DEFENSE CONTRACTS.—Section 2305 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) REQUIREMENT
FOR EMPLOYMENT
IN
THE 
UNITED STATES.—(1) In the case of any contract for the 
procurement of goods and services to be entered into by 
a military department, the head of the military depart-
ment may not consider a covered prospective contractor 
to be a responsible source unless the covered prospective 
contractor employs at least 50 percent of its employees 
in the United States. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a prospective 
contractor is covered if at least 10 percent of its annual 
gross receipts, during the year preceding the year in which 
the contractor submits a bid or proposal for the contract 
concerned, was attributable to contracts with the Federal 
Government.’’. 
(b) CIVILIAN AGENCY CONTRACTS.—Section 303B of 
title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Serv-
ices Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253b) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(n) REQUIREMENT
FOR EMPLOYMENT
IN
THE 
UNITED STATES.—(1) In the case of any contract for the 
procurement of goods and services to be entered into by 
an executive agency, the head of the executive agency may 
not consider a covered prospective contractor to be a re-
sponsible source unless the covered prospective contractor 
employs at least 50 percent of its employees in the United 
States. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a prospective 
contractor is covered if at least 10 percent of its annual 
gross receipts, during the year preceding the year in which 
the contractor submits a bid or proposal for the contract 
concerned, was attributable to contracts with the Federal 
Government.’’. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The amendments made by 
this section shall be implemented through revisions to the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation.
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