Buy America Accountability Act of 2013

Buy America Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Buy American Act to require the head of each federal department or independent establishment to submit to Congress a report that contains an evaluation of contractor compliance with the provisions of that Act for at least 10% of the contracts awarded during the fiscal year for the procurement of articles, materials, or supplies.

Requires the report to be publicly available.

Prohibits the report from covering acquisitions made by an agency, or a component thereof, that is an element of the intelligence community.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1480 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1480

To amend chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code (commonly known as 
   the Buy American Act), to require each department or independent 
     establishment to conduct an annual audit of its contracts for 
         compliance with such chapter, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2013

 Ms. Shea-Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code (commonly known as 
   the Buy American Act), to require each department or independent 
     establishment to conduct an annual audit of its contracts for 
         compliance with such chapter, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Buy America Accountability Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. AUDIT OF CONTRACTS REQUIRED.

    Section 8302 of title 41, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Audit of Contracts Required.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the end of 
        a fiscal year, the head of each department or independent 
        establishment shall submit to Congress a report that contains 
        an evaluation performed by such department or independent 
        establishment of contractor compliance with the provisions of 
        this chapter for at least 10 percent of the contracts awarded 
        by the department or independent establishment during that 
        fiscal year for the procurement of articles, materials, or 
        supplies.
            ``(2) Public availability.--The head of each Federal agency 
        submitting a report under paragraph (1) shall make the report 
        publicly available to the maximum extent practicable.
            ``(3) Exception for the intelligence community.--The report 
        required under this subsection shall not cover acquisitions 
        made by an agency, or component thereof, that is an element of 
        the intelligence community as specified in, or designated 
        under, section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
        U.S.C. 401a(4)).''.
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