21st Century Buy American Act

Bill: 117-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Infrastructure development
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Transportation costs
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

21st Century Buy American Act

 
This bill modifies domestic product preferences for federal acquisitions. The bill also allows the Department of Defense to make or guarantee loans to manufacturers under the Defense Production Act for specified uses, such as to increase the capacity to produce items that are vital to national security.
 

The bill requires more than 60% of a product's cost to be from domestic components for the product to qualify as American for purposes of the Buy American Act.
 
The bill narrows the circumstances under which the overseas use exception and the public interest exception to domestic content requirements may be made.
 
The General Services Administration must update BuyAmerican.gov to include and make available to the public (1) information on all waivers and exceptions to domestic product preference laws requested, under consideration, or granted; and (2) publicly available contact information for the contracting agencies.
 
No requested waiver of a domestic product preference law may be granted if (1) the request was not made available to the public, (2) the information available to the agency concerning the request was not made available to the public, or (3) no opportunity for public comment concerning the request was granted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in House