To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that projects funded through the National Institutes of Health comply with wage rate requirements commonly referred to as the "Davis-Bacon Act", and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require that applications for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) loan, grant, contract, or cooperative agreement for any project include reasonable assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of construction or modernization on the project will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar work in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor.

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Timeline

1. 4 January 2007

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 4 January 2007

   Introduced

   Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 4 January 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 4 January 2007

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 2 February 2007

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

   Source: Committee

6. 9 May 2007

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 4 January 2007 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 4 January 2007

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 January 2007

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Sponsors

• GENE GREEN · D · Sponsor
• · hsed00 · Standing
• · hsif00 · Standing

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