S.Amdt. 6258

SA 6258. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 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, add the following:

SEC. 823. PROHIBITION ON PROCUREMENTS PRODUCED BY CHILD
LABOR.

(a) Prohibition on the Availability of Funds for
Procurements Produced by Child Labor.--None of the funds
authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made
available for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Defense
may be obligated or expended to knowingly procure any
products produced or manufactured wholly or in part by
oppressive child labor.
(b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall issue
rules, in consultation with the Department of Labor, to
require a certification from offerors for contracts with the
Department of Defense stating the offeror has made a good
faith effort to determine that oppressive child labor was not
or will not be used in the performance of such contract.
(c) Oppressive Child Labor Defined.--In this section, the
term ``oppressive child labor'' has the meaning given the
term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29
U.S.C. 203).
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