State Licensure Requirements, Local Hiring Preferences, Registered Apprenticeship Goals & More
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ is working to block several amendments to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill that would negatively impact military construction contractors. Among other things, these amendments—if included—would: require prime contractors and subcontractors to be licensed in the state of the military construction project; establish local hiring preferences; impose subjective criteria into the suspension and debarment process that would make it easier to blacklist contractors; and require contractors to exceed a 20 percent registered apprenticeship goal. Congress has passed the NDAA for about 60 consecutive years and it is considered must-pass legislation, which is why ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ is taking seriously any attempt to add harmful construction policy to it. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ will continue to advocate for contractor priorities as the House and Senate conference their versions of the NDAA.
For more information, contact Jordan Howard at Jordan.Howard@agc.org or (703) 837-5368.