Berry Amendment Notification Act

Berry Amendment Notification Act - Provides that if the Secretary of Defense makes an exception to the requirement that certain items procured by the Department of Defense must be grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States, then the Secretary must post a notification of such exception on the Internet site maintained by the General Services Administration known as FedBizOps.gov (or any successor site).

Adds clothing materials and components to the items for which such Buy American requirement will apply.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1239 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1239

To require notice of exceptions applied by the Department of Defense to 
    certain requirements to procure items made in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2005

  Mr. Hayes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require notice of exceptions applied by the Department of Defense to 
    certain requirements to procure items made in the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Berry Amendment Notification Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO DOMESTIC SOURCE REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Notice.--Section 2533a of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Notification Required Within 7 Days After Contract Award If 
Certain Exceptions Applied.--In the case of any contract for the 
procurement of an item described in subparagraph (B), (C), (D), or (E) 
of subsection (b)(1), if the Secretary of Defense or of the military 
department concerned applies an exception set forth in subsection (c) 
or (e) with respect to that contract, the Secretary shall, not later 
than 7 days after the award of the contract, post a notification that 
the exception has been applied on the Internet site maintained by the 
General Services Administration known as FedBizOps.gov (or any 
successor site).''.
    (b) Clothing Materials and Components Covered.--Subsection (b) of 
section 2533a of title 10, United States Code, is amended in paragraph 
(1)(B) by inserting before the semicolon the following: ``and the 
materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or 
other items added to, and not normally associated with, clothing (and 
the materials and components thereof)''.
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