Plain Language in Contracting Act
Latest action · May 23, 2024 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 409.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 15, 2024
- Passed HouseApr 29, 2024
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Plain Language in Contracting Act
This bill requires that notices of contracting opportunities for small businesses are written in a clear, concise, and accessible manner.
Each notice also must comply with the requirements of the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which are applicable to publications and notices by federal agencies.
The Small Business Administration must issue rules to implement these requirements.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 15, 2024.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Original | Apr 15, 2024 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Apr 15, 2024Markup Apr 17, 2024Reported Apr 26, 2024 |
| Senate | Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee | Referred Apr 30, 2024Markup May 22, 2024Reported May 23, 2024 |
Actions 16
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 23, 2024Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Shaheen without amendment. Without written report.
- May 23, 2024Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 409.
- May 22, 2024Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Apr 30, 2024Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- Apr 29, 2024Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2638)
- Apr 29, 2024Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Apr 29, 2024Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2645-2646)
- Apr 29, 2024DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 7987.
- Apr 29, 2024Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2645)
- Apr 29, 2024Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Apr 26, 2024Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 118-471.
- Apr 26, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 390.
- Apr 17, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 17, 2024Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 0.
- Apr 15, 2024Introduced in House
- Apr 15, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2638, H2645, H2646Text printed H2645 | Nick LaLota R-NY, Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY, Roger Williams R-TX, Shri Thanedar D-MI | Apr 29, 2024 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jun 24, 2024H.R. 7987, Plain Language in Contracting ActAs reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on May 23, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 64, April 15, 2024, page H2397.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require plain language and the inclusion of key words in covered notices that are clear, concise, and accessible to small business concerns, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Plain Language in Contracting Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Plain Language in Contracting Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Plain Language in Contracting Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Plain Language in Contracting Act
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Plain Language in Contracting Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 5
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 23, 2024Reported to Senate
- Apr 30, 2024Referred in Senate
- Apr 29, 2024Engrossed in House
- Apr 26, 2024Reported in House
- Apr 15, 2024Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
