Sec. 5. Authority for Federal agencies to take the outsourcing of jobs from the United States into account for grants, loans, and loan guarantees
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The head of any Federal agency, or their delegate, shall require any entity that submits a request for an applicable agency action to disclose in the request if such entity, or any subsidiary of such entity, owns a facility for which there is an outsourcing event during the 3-year period ending on the date of the submission of the request. For purposes of paragraph (1), the term outsourcing event means a plant closing or mass layoff (as described in section 2(a) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) in which the employment loss (excluding any part-time employees) for positions which will be moved to a country outside of the United States, as determined pursuant to the outsourcing statement (as described in paragraph
(1)of such section 3(e) of such Act), exceeds 50 employees. In considering a request by an entity for an applicable agency action, the head of any Federal agency, as well as any officers, employees, and contractors of such Agency, shall take into account any disclosure made pursuant to subsection
(a)for purposes of such request. The head of any Federal agency shall establish a negative preference of not less than 10 percent of the scoring evaluation for any request for an applicable agency action by an entity that makes a disclosure pursuant to subsection (a). It is the sense of Congress that Federal agencies should, in considering requests by entities for any applicable agency action, exclude entities making a disclosure of an outsourcing event pursuant to subsection
(a)on the grounds that the actions described in the disclosures are against the public interests of the United States. The head of each Federal agency shall submit to Congress each year a report on the following: The number of entities making a disclosure of an outsourcing event pursuant to subsection
(a)in regards to a request for applicable agency action during the preceding year. The number of requests for applicable agency action which were granted by the agency during the preceding year in which such disclosures were taken into account. For purposes of this section, the term applicable agency action means any grant, loan, or loan guarantee awarded or issued by a Federal agency.