LD407 - Buy American

(2015)

An Act To Buy American-made Products

Sponsored by Sponsored by Representative John Martin (D-Eagle Lake)

What is the bill?

Millions of dollars in state procurement for construction materials and other goods are spent every year, yet there is no formal preference for buying USA made goods with those taxpayer dollars. LD 407 would have created a preference for American made goods for public procurement. Buy American provisions would create and support jobs in manufacturing here in the U.S. and would help stabilize our economy. Although there were plenty of common sense measures in the bill that would allow for exemptions when American made products were not available in the proper quantity or quality, Republicans blocked this bill from moving forward.

What happened?

Defeated

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