Small Business Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4671
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2016-03-02
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Electric power generation and transmission

Employment and training programs

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

Pipelines

Public contracts and procurement

Public utilities and utility rates

Right of privacy

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2016-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Small Business Protection Act of 2016</b></p> <p>This bill amends the federal criminal code to repeal the requirement that federal departments and agencies purchase prison-made products.</p> <p>Federal Prison Industries shall be ineligible to produce any product under a contract awarded for the sale of government property to a small business concern under the Small Business Act.</p> <p>No executive agency head may enter into any contract with Federal Prison Industries under which an inmate worker would have access to classified data, personal or financial information about any individual private citizen without the individual's consent, or geographic data regarding the location of:</p> <ul> <li>surface and subsurface infrastructure providing communications or water or electrical power distribution;</li> <li>pipelines for the distribution of natural gas, bulk petroleum products, or other commodities; or</li> <li>other utilities.</li> </ul> <p>The Attorney General shall report to Congress on the extent of re-entry employment preparation provided to inmates by participation in Federal Prison Industries.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4671 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2016 Mr. Huizenga of Michigan (for himself and Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to eliminate Federal Prison Industries advantages over the private sector and small business in the procurement of commercially available goods and services.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Protection Act of 2016 . 2. Modifications in authority of Federal Prison Industries (a) Elimination of mandatory sourcing for Government contracts (1) Section 4124 of title 18, United States Code, is repealed. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 307 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 4124. (b) Elimination of Small Business Set-Asides for Federal Prison Industries Section 4122 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) Federal Prison Industries is ineligible to produce any product under a contract awarded to a small business concern pursuant to section 15(a) of the Small Business Act. . (c) Protection of classified and sensitive information Section 4122 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by subsection (b), is further amended by adding at the end the following: (g) The head of an executive agency may not enter into any contract with Federal Prison Industries under which an inmate worker would have access to— (1) any data that is classified; (2) any geographic data regarding the location of— (A) surface and subsurface infrastructure providing communications or water or electrical power distribution; (B) pipelines for the distribution of natural gas, bulk petroleum products, or other commodities; or (C) other utilities; or (3) any personal or financial information about any individual private citizen, including information relating to such person’s real property however described, without the prior consent of the individual. . (d) Report to Congress Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall report to Congress on the extent of re-entry employment preparation provided to inmates by participation in Federal Prison Industries. Such report shall focus on the rate of recidivism found among such inmates after release as compared to that rate among other inmates who did not participate in Federal Prison Industries.