HILTON Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a federal contracting restriction. A federal agency head may not enter into an agreement for covered services with an entity that, during the preceding year, refused a covered service to a federal law enforcement officer because of the officer's official duty or maintained a policy expressly allowing such refusal. Covered services include lodging, transportation, food and beverage, healthcare, vehicle rental, property rental, and storage. Waivers are allowed when no comparable necessary covered service is available within 50 miles or when a parent company takes sufficient remedial action against the refusing entity. Controlled-group and common-control entities are treated as one entity.
Who Benefits and How
Federal law enforcement officers benefit because service refusals tied to official duties can make vendors ineligible for federal covered-service agreements. Federal agencies may gain leverage to require service availability when procuring travel, lodging, medical, rental, or storage services.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Hotels, transportation providers, food service providers, healthcare providers, rental businesses, storage providers, and federal procurement officers must track refusal policies and recent denials. Agency heads must evaluate waiver conditions, controlled-group status, and remedial actions before contracting.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits federal agencies from entering covered-service agreements with entities that refused service to federal law enforcement officers because of official duties.
- Applies the restriction to lodging, transportation, food and beverage, healthcare, vehicle rental, property rental, and storage services.
- Authorizes waivers when no comparable service is available within 50 miles or a parent company takes sufficient remedial action.
- Treats controlled-group and common-control entities as one entity for the contracting restriction.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Bars federal agencies from contracting for lodging, transportation, food, healthcare, rental, or storage services with entities that recently denied covered services to federal law enforcement officers because of official duties.
Key Policy Areas
Procurement, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
Bars federal agencies from contracting for lodging, transportation, food, healthcare, rental, or storage services with entities that recently denied covered services to federal law enforcement officers because of official duties.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal agencies procuring travel services
- Federal agencies procuring healthcare services
Identified Costs
- Hotels serving federal travelers
- Transportation service providers
- Healthcare providers
- Federal procurement officers
- Vehicle rental businesses
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Mr. Mills introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "covered service"
- → lodging, transportation, food and beverage, healthcare, vehicle rental, property rental, or storage
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