HR 7887 - Allowing Contractors to Choose Employees for Select Skills (ACCESS) Act - National Key Vote
Timeline
- House Bill Failed
- July 23, 2024
- Introduced
- April 9, 2024
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Title: Allowing Contractors to Choose Employees for Select Skills (ACCESS) Act
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits federal agency solicitations from requiring minimum experience or educational requirements for proposed contractor personnel except in specified circumstances.
Highlights:
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Prohibits federal agency solicitations from requiring minimum experience or educational requirements for proposed contractor personnel except in specified circumstances (Sec. 2).
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Defines “solicitations” in this bill as identifying agency needs and providing instructions and other information to would-be offerors (Sec. 2).
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Specifies that solicitations can require minimum experience or educational requirements if the contracting officer includes a written justification explaining why the agency's needs cannot be met without such a requirement (Sec. 2).
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Requires that the Office of Management and Budget issue guidance within 60 days of enactment to federal agencies for implementing this bill (Sec. 2).
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NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION NEEDED A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE TO PASS
Title: Allowing Contractors to Choose Employees for Select Skills (ACCESS) Act