To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure that footwear furnished or obtained by allowance for enlisted members of the Armed Forces upon their initial entry into the Armed Forces complies with domestic source requirements.

Amends military pay and allowance provisions to require footwear furnished to or obtained by allowance for enlisted members of the Armed Forces upon their initial entry into service to comply with Department of Defense (DOD) requirements concerning the procurement of products through domestic sources (Buy American requirements), without regard to the applicability of any simplified acquisition threshold.

Provides an exception with respect to athletic footwear that is medically required to meet unique physiological needs that cannot be met by footwear complying with such procurement requirements.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2188 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2188

    To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure that footwear 
 furnished or obtained by allowance for enlisted members of the Armed 
  Forces upon their initial entry into the Armed Forces complies with 
                     domestic source requirements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2013

   Mr. Michaud (for himself and Ms. Pingree of Maine) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure that footwear 
 furnished or obtained by allowance for enlisted members of the Armed 
  Forces upon their initial entry into the Armed Forces complies with 
                     domestic source requirements.

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

SECTION 1. COMPLIANCE WITH DOMESTIC SOURCE REQUIREMENTS OF FOOTWEAR 
              FURNISHED OR OBTAINED BY ALLOWANCE FOR ENLISTED MEMBERS 
              OF THE ARMED FORCES UPON THEIR INITIAL ENTRY INTO THE 
              ARMED FORCES.

    Section 418(a) of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(b)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) The footwear prescribed under this section to be furnished 
to, or to be paid for by allowance under this section by, members upon 
their initial entry into armed forces shall comply with the 
requirements of section 2533a of title 10, without regard to the 
applicability of any simplified acquisition threshold under chapter 137 
of title 10 (or any other provision of law) to the use of such 
allowance for such footwear.
    ``(B) Subparagraph (A) does not apply to athletic footwear 
furnished to, or paid for by allowance by, a member described in that 
subparagraph if such footwear--
            ``(i) is medically required to meet unique physiological 
        needs of the member; and
            ``(ii) cannot be met with athletic footwear that complies 
        with the requirements referred to in that subparagraph.''.
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