S.Amdt. 625

SA 625. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 title X, add the following:

Subtitle H--Outsourcing Prevention

SEC. 1091. SHORT TITLE.

This subtitle may be cited as the ``Defending American Jobs
Act''.

SEC. 1092. WORKFORCE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFENSE
CONTRACTS.

(a) Information Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall
require each contractor that enters into a contract with the
Department of Defense for the procurement of property or
services to provide to the Department, on an annual basis for
the duration of the contract, the following information:
(1) The number of individuals employed by the contractor in
the United States.
(2) The number of individuals employed by the contractor
outside the United States.
(3) A description of the wages and employee benefits being
provided to the employees of the contractor in the United
States.
(4) A description of the wages and employee benefits being
provided to the employees of the contractor outside the
United States.
(b) Certification Regarding Layoffs.--Beginning on the date
that is one year after a contractor enters into a contract
described under subsection (a), and annually thereafter for
the duration of the contract, the contractor shall provide,
in addition to the information required under subsection (a),
a written certification that contains the following
information:
(1) The percentage of the workforce of the contractor
employed in the United States that has been laid off or
induced to resign from the contractor during the 12-month
period preceding the submission of the certification.
(2) The percentage of the total workforce of the contractor
that has been laid off or induced to resign from the
contractor during the 12-month period preceding the
submission of the certification.
(c) Prohibition on Awarding Contracts to Defense
Contractors That Lay Off a Greater Percentage of Workers in
the United States Than in Other Countries.--Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, if, in the written certification
provided to the Department of Defense by a contractor under
subsection (b), the percentage described in paragraph (1) of
such subsection is greater than the percentage described in
paragraph (2) of such subsection, the contractor shall be
ineligible for further contracts with the Department of
Defense until the contractor provides to the Department a
written certification that the number of employees of the
contractor in the United States is in the same proportion as,
or has increased in proportion to, the number of the
employees of the contractor worldwide as of the later of--
(1) the date the contractor last made a certification under
subsection (b) concerning the contract that did not cause the
contractor to become ineligible under this subsection for a
Department of Defense contract; or
(2) the date on which the contractor entered into the
contract for which the certification is being made.
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