Title: Stop Swaps, Protect Local Jobs Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Stop Swaps, Protect Local Jobs Act
This bill applies federal prevailing wage requirements to arrangements in which states allow local agencies to exchange their state's proposed allocation of Federal-Aid Highway Program funding for state transportation funds.
Under current law, when such an exchange occurs, local agencies must comply with applicable state and local requirements but generally not prevailing wage and other federal requirements.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3559 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3559

     To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for certain 
 requirements for Federal funds allocated for State or local uses, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2021

  Mrs. Axne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for certain 
 requirements for Federal funds allocated for State or local uses, 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 ``Stop Swaps, Protect Local Jobs 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROJECT APPROVAL AND OVERSIGHT.

     Section 106(g) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Federal funding exchange programs.--
                    ``(A) In general.--If a State allows a subrecipient 
                to exchange Federal funds allocated to such 
                subrecipient in accordance with the requirements of 
                this title for State or local funds, the State must 
                certify to the Secretary that the State--
                            ``(i) has prevailing wage requirements that 
                        are comparable to the requirements under 
                        section 113; and
                            ``(ii) will ensure that the prevailing wage 
                        requirements described in clause (i) shall 
                        apply to covered projects.
                    ``(B) Applicability.--The requirements of this 
                paragraph shall apply only if the requirements of 
                section 113 would be applicable to a covered project if 
                such project was carried out using Federal funds.
                    ``(C) Covered project defined.--In this paragraph, 
                the term `covered project' means a project carried out 
                with exchanged State or local funds as described in 
                subparagraph (A).''.
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