Keep Buying American Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3006
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2018-06-06
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American requirements

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Latest action: action_date: 2018-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-06
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Keep Buying American Act of 2018</b> </p> <p>This bill directs each agency required to submit reports under Executive Order 13788, titled &quot;Buy American and Hire American,&quot; to make each report available to the public and Congress at the same time it submits the report to the Department of Commerce and the Office of Management and Budget.</p> <p>Each agency that was previously required to submit a report under such order shall make each report available to the public and to Congress.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3006 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 6, 2018 Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Murphy , Ms. Smith , and Mr. Merkley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To require publication of the annual reports required under the Presidential Order on Buy American and Hire American.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Buying American Act of 2018 . 2. Publication of annual reports on Buy American and Hire American compliance (a) In general The head of each agency required to submit reports under Executive Order 13788, entitled Buy American and Hire American , (or any successor order) shall make each report available to the public, and submit each report to Congress, at the same time the head of the agency submits the report to the Secretary of Commerce and Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (b) Publication of previous reports Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency that was previously required to submit a report under Executive Order 13788 shall make each such report available to the public, and submit each such report to Congress.