H.R. 10650
American Glove Act of 2026
Sponsor: Mike Carey · 0 cosponsors
In plain English: what this bill does
The bill would require federal agencies that buy nitrile gloves through shared or intermediary purchasing arrangements, including those tied to the AbilityOne Program, to make sure those gloves come only from qualified U.S.-based manufacturers under long-term supplier agreements. It would also set ownership and foreign-influence limits on which manufacturers qualify and require agencies to certify compliance and fix any noncompliant arrangements.
Who this affects
- Covered federal agencies (such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Defense): would have to structure glove purchases through shared procurement vehicles so that the gloves come only from qualified domestic manufacturers under supplier agreements of at least two years.
- Qualified domestic manufacturers: would be the only producers allowed to supply covered nitrile gloves to these vehicles, and must be majority-owned and controlled by U.S. persons and free of significant influence by foreign entities of concern.
- AbilityOne participating nonprofit agencies, central nonprofit agencies, authorized distributors, and prime contractors: would need to incorporate qualifying supplier agreements into their arrangements and could not treat intermediary contracting as meeting the bill's requirements.
- Contracting officers and agency heads: would have to keep written certifications in each contract file and take corrective action when a vehicle does not comply.
Words to know
- AbilityOne Program: a federal program that lets nonprofit agencies employing people with disabilities sell products and services to the government.
- Supplier agreement: a written contract of at least two years between a buyer and a qualified domestic manufacturer that includes a guaranteed minimum purchase or order commitment.
- Foreign entity of concern: a foreign person or organization the government treats as a national security or economic risk.
- Covered procurement vehicle: any purchasing arrangement, such as a contract, blanket purchase agreement, or prime vendor deal, that an agency uses to buy covered gloves.
For example
Made-up situation: A federal agency buys gloves through a prime vendor that resells them for a nonprofit. Under this bill, the agency would have to make sure the vendor gets the gloves from a qualified U.S. factory under a two-year supplier agreement with a guaranteed minimum order, rather than from a foreign factory or a short-term deal, and keep a written certification of this in the contract file.
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In this Act:
(1) AbilityOne Program. The term AbilityOne Program means the program carried out under chapter 85 of title 41, United States Code.
(2) Covered agency. The term covered agency means the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and any other executive agency that procures covered nitrile gloves through a governmentwide acquisition contract, blanket purchase agreement, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, prime vendor arrangement, AbilityOne contract, or other shared procurement vehicle.
(3) Covered nitrile glove. The term covered nitrile glove means a nitrile examination glove, or other non-surgical nitrile glove procured by the Federal Government for medical, public health, emergency response, homeland security, laboratory, biodefense, or other protective use.
(4) Covered procurement vehicle. The term covered procurement vehicle means any contract, order, blanket purchase agreement, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, governmentwide acquisition contract, prime vendor arrangement, distribution arrangement, Procurement List designation, authorized distributor arrangement, or other acquisition mechanism used by a covered agency to procure covered nitrile gloves through or in coordination with the AbilityOne Program.
(5) Qualified domestic manufacturer. The term qualified domestic manufacturer means an entity that—
(A) manufactures covered nitrile gloves in the United States;
(B) is majority-owned and controlled by United States persons;
(C) is not owned, controlled, or subject to significant influence, directly or indirectly, by a foreign entity of concern, including through subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, financing arrangements, licensing arrangements, or contractual arrangements; and
(D) has the demonstrated capacity to manufacture covered nitrile gloves at commercial scale in the United States.
(6) Manufacture. The term manufacture—
(A) means performing the principal production processes necessary to produce covered nitrile gloves as the end item procured by the Federal Government, including forming, dipping, curing, finishing, testing, and packaging such gloves; and
(B) does not include activities consisting primarily of resale, brokerage, distribution, warehousing, order fulfillment, relabeling, repackaging, reboxing, kitting, invoicing, shipping, inspection, or other administrative or logistical handling of gloves manufactured by another entity.
(7) Supplier agreement. The term supplier agreement means a written agreement between an AbilityOne participating nonprofit agency, central nonprofit agency, authorized AbilityOne distributor, prime contractor, or other entity responsible for furnishing covered nitrile gloves to the Federal Government and a qualified domestic manufacturer that—
(A) has a term of not less than two years;
(B) includes a binding minimum purchase commitment, minimum order quantity, or other enforceable commercially reasonable demand commitment sufficient to support domestic production planning and investment;
(C) establishes pricing, delivery, quality assurance, and performance requirements;
(D) identifies the qualified domestic manufacturer and the United States manufacturing facility that will manufacture the covered nitrile gloves;
(E) provides that covered nitrile gloves furnished under the agreement may not be substituted with products manufactured by another manufacturer unless approved by the covered agency through a modification of the supplier agreement; and
(F) is enforceable directly between the contracting entity and the qualified domestic manufacturer.