Title: To amend title 41, United States Code, to require the head of each executive agency to consider the existence of qualified training programs of contractors in the award of certain contracts.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill requires each executive agency to take into account a contractor's training programs in evaluating offers for any contract in an amount greater than $25 million. Contracting officers must give consideration to a contractor that provides comprehensive training and education programs to develop its workforce, consistent with the agency's needs. In assessing past performance, contracting officers must consider the manner in which an incumbent contractor is educating, investing, and retaining the contractor's workforce.
Each agency shall develop workforce development investment incentives for contractors.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 533 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 533

  To amend title 41, United States Code, to require the head of each 
   executive agency to consider the existence of qualified training 
       programs of contractors in the award of certain contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2019

Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Ms. Bonamici, and Ms. Clarke of New 
    York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 41, United States Code, to require the head of each 
   executive agency to consider the existence of qualified training 
       programs of contractors in the award of certain contracts.

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

SECTION 1. CONSIDERATION OF CONTRACTORS WITH QUALIFIED TRAINING 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a)  Consideration of Contractors With Qualified Training 
Programs.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 47 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by inserting after section 4712 the following 
        new section:
``Sec. 4713. Consideration of contractors with qualified training 
              programs
    ``(a) Consideration.--The head of each executive agency shall, to 
the maximum extent practicable, consider the existence of qualified 
training programs of contractors by requiring a contracting officer, in 
the evaluation of offers for any contract in an amount greater than 
$25,000,000--
            ``(1) to consider the existence of a qualified training 
        program of an offeror as a factor in the evaluation;
            ``(2) to give consideration to an offeror that provides 
        comprehensive training and education programs to develop its 
        workforce, consistent with needs of the agency; and
            ``(3) in the consideration of past performance of an 
        incumbent contractor, to consider the manner in which the 
        incumbent contractor is educating, investing, and retaining the 
        contractor's workforce.
    ``(b) Incentives.--The head of each executive agency shall develop 
workforce development investment incentives for contractors.
    ``(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
construed as altering or superceding the applicability of existing work 
force development investment incentives for contractors.
    ``(d) Qualified Training Program Defined.--The term `qualified 
training program' means any of the following:
            ``(1) A program eligible to receive funds under the 
        Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et 
        seq.).
            ``(2) A program eligible to receive funds under the Carl D. 
        Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (21 U.S.C. 
        2301 et seq.).
            ``(3) A program registered under the Act of August 16, 1937 
        (commonly known as the `National Apprenticeship Act'; Stat. 
        664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.).
            ``(4) Any other Federal program determined to be a 
        qualified training program for purposes of this section by the 
        head of the executive agency.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
        item relating to section 4712 the following new item:

``4713. Consideration of contractors with qualified training 
                            programs.''.
    (b) Applicability.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
apply with respect to contracts awarded on or after the date that is 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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