Local Hire Act

Bill: 114-hr-4005
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2015-11-16
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Employee hiring

Public contracts and procurement

Public transit

Roads and highways

Transportation programs funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-11-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Local Hire Act </b></p> <p> This bill authorizes a state to establish local hiring bid specifications or consider the hiring of local workers in the evaluation of bids and proposals for federal-aid highway projects. The recipients of federal assistance are likewise authorized to establish such specifications or consider local hiring in the evaluation of bids and proposals for public transportation projects.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4005 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 16, 2015 Ms. Bass (for herself, Ms. Hahn , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Ted Lieu of California , Mrs. Napolitano , Mr. Schiff , and Ms. Maxine Waters of California ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to allow local hiring for transportation projects.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Local Hire Act . 2. Highway projects Section 112 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) Local hiring (1) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State may establish local hiring bid specifications or consider the hiring of local workers in the evaluation of bids and proposals for a project under this title. (2) Definition For purposes of this subsection, the term local means the geographic boundaries of a local area, as defined by the contracting agency, in which the project is located. . 3. Public transportation projects Section 5325 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (l) Local hiring (1) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a recipient of assistance under this chapter may establish local hiring bid specifications or consider local hiring in the evaluation of bids and proposals for a project under this chapter. (2) Definition For purposes of this subsection, the term local means the geographic boundaries of a local area, as defined by the contracting agency, in which the project is located. .