Equal Standards in Hiring Americans Act

Equal Standards in Hiring Americans Act - Provides that the proposed rule published by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the Department of Labor in the Federal Register on December 9, 2011, relating to affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations of contractors and subcontractors regarding individuals with disabilities, and any subsequent rule that is substantially the same, shall have no force or effect unless the Secretary of Labor certifies to Congress that each office and division within the Department of Labor is complying with the requirements of such rule.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 759 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 759

  To provide that a certain proposed rule published by the Office of 
  Federal Contract Compliance Programs shall have no force or effect 
 unless the Department of Labor is first certified to be in compliance 
                            with such rule.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2013

  Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mr. Schock) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that a certain proposed rule published by the Office of 
  Federal Contract Compliance Programs shall have no force or effect 
 unless the Department of Labor is first certified to be in compliance 
                            with such rule.

    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 ``Equal Standards in Hiring Americans 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROPOSED RULE.

    The proposed rule published by the Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs of the Department of Labor in the Federal Register 
on December 9, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 77056 et seq.) and any subsequent 
rule that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect, 
unless the Secretary of Labor certifies to Congress that each office 
and division within the Department of Labor is complying with the 
requirements of such rule.
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