21st Century Buy American Act
- Last Action
- 5/21/2021
Actions
- 2021-05-21Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- 2021-05-21Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
- 2021-05-21Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
- 2021-05-21Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- 2021-05-20Referred 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.
- 2021-05-20Referred 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.
- 2021-05-20Referred 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.
- 2021-05-20Introduced in House
- 2021-05-20Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2021-05-20 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (1)
- John Garamendi (D-CA)
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
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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