Washington, Feb 12: An anti-outsourcing bill pending before a state legislature failed to move ahead when a Colorado Senate panel killed it.
The measure, SB 170, would have restrained movement of jobs overseas and required companies to keep workers assigned to state contracts in the US.
It collapsed after lawmakers on the Senate State Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted four-three to postpone action on the measure indefinitely.
Republicans opposed the bill, while Democrats supported it. Business interests also fought the measure, said a news journal published from Denver, the state capital.
The bill was one of two introduced in the legislature under which companies that send jobs overseas would have to forget about getting lucrative state contracts.
Bureau Report