S.Amdt. 4540

SA 4540. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, and Ms.
Mikulski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the
bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title VIII of division A,
insert the following:

SEC. 829K. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH DISCRIMINATORY
CONTRACTORS.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 829H, the
Secretary of Defense may not enter into any contract
described in subsection (b) with any person or business that
the Labor Compliance Advisor of the Department of Defense
determines to have engaged, during the 3-year period
preceding the request for proposals for the contract, in
serious, repeated, willful, or pervasive discrimination (as
defined under Executive Order 13673 (79 Fed. Reg. 45309;
relating to Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces)) on the basis of
sex in the payment of wages in violation of section 6(d) of
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (commonly known as the
``Equal Pay Act of 1963'') (29 U.S.C. 206(d)) or of title VII
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.).
(b) Applicable Contract.--A contract described in this
subsection is any procurement contract for goods and
services, including construction, in which the estimated
value of the supplies acquired and services required exceeds
$500,000.
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