To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish a credit to any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor agreement, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-9061
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2020-12-31
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources

Labor-management relations

Licensing and registrations

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill directs the Department of the Interior, in evaluating a bid for an oil or gas lease, to award a 10% credit to the value of a bid if the bidder commits to enter into a project labor agreement with respect to any employees who will be engaged in building or construction in the offshore wind energy development within the leased track.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9061 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 31, 2020 Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish a credit to any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor agreement, and for other purposes.

1. Project labor agreement credit in offshore leasing (a) In general Section 8(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1337(a)(1) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (9) Project labor agreement credit (1) In general In evaluating a bid under this section, the Secretary shall award a 10 percent credit to value of a bid if the bidder commits to enter into a project labor agreement with respect to any employees who, upon their employment, will be engaged in building or construction with respect to the offshore wind energy development within the leased tract. The Secretary shall include such commitment as a term in any lease the bid for which included such commitment. (2) Project labor agreement In this paragraph, the term project labor agreement means a collective bargaining agreement that is— (A) an agreement described in section 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(f) ); and (B) between an employer and one or more labor organizations and establishes, in advanced of hiring employees who, upon their employment, will be engaged in building or construction of a specific project, the terms and conditions of employment for such employees for such project. .