Title: HARD HAT Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Helping America Re-Develop High-Quality Accessible Training Act or the HARD HAT Act
This bill prohibits an executive agency from awarding certain contracts unless the contractor requires at least 20% of its non-management employees to participate in a registered apprenticeship program.
Specifically, this applies to any contract exceeding $1.5 million for the construction or resurfacing of roads, bridges, or railways; or the construction of subsurface structures, sewage and waste facilities, or public buildings.
The agency shall take into consideration the percentage of its non-management employees that complete the program before awarding any subsequent contract.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6693 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6693

 To amend title 41, United States Code, to require certain contractors 
    to meet a requirement with respect to registered apprenticeship 
                   programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 31, 2018

Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself and Ms. Jackson Lee) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 41, United States Code, to require certain contractors 
    to meet a requirement with respect to registered apprenticeship 
                   programs, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Helping America Re-Develop High-
Quality Accessible Training Act'' or the ``HARD HAT Act''.

SEC. 2. REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN 
              CONTRACTORS.

    (a) Registered Apprenticeship Program Requirement for Certain 
Contractors.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 63 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 6310. Registered apprenticeship program requirement for certain 
              contractors
    ``(a) In General.--An executive agency may not award a covered 
construction contract to a contractor, unless such contractor agrees to 
require at least 20 percent of the non-management employees of such 
contractor to complete, or be enrolled in, a registered apprenticeship 
program as of the date on which construction under the contract begins.
    ``(b) Consideration for Future Contracts.--In the case of an 
executive agency that awards a covered construction contract to a 
contractor that makes the agreement described in subsection (a), such 
agency shall, to the extent practicable, take into consideration the 
percentage of non-management employees of such contractor that complete 
a registered apprenticeship program pursuant to the agreement described 
in such subsection before awarding any subsequent covered construction 
contract to such contractor.
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Covered construction contract.--The term `covered 
        construction contract'--
                    ``(A) means a contract in an amount exceeding 
                $1,500,000 for --
                            ``(i) the construction or resurfacing of 
                        highways, roads, streets, bridges, or railways; 
                        or
                            ``(ii) the construction of--
                                    ``(I) tunnels or other subsurface 
                                structures;
                                    ``(II) sewage and waste facilities;
                                    ``(III) waste treatment and storage 
                                facilities; or
                                    ``(IV) public buildings (as defined 
                                in section 3301 of title 40); and
                    ``(B) does not include any contract for 
                construction or resurfacing outside the United States.
            ``(2) Executive agency.--The term `executive agency' has 
        the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 40.
            ``(3) Registered apprenticeship program.--The term 
        `registered apprenticeship program' means a program registered 
        under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the 
        National Apprenticeship Act; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 
        U.S.C. 50 et seq.).''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
        following new item:

``6310. Registered apprenticeship program requirement for certain 
                            contractors.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) shall 
apply with respect to contracts awarded on or after the date that is 
120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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