No Cash for Incompetent and Malicious Contractors Act

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Mandatory Debarment and Suspension for PII Disclosure

Federal contractors convicted or found civilly liable for illegally sharing clients' private data — including Social Security numbers, health records, or tax information — must be barred from federal contracts for one to five years. Contractors under criminal investigation face temporary suspension.

• Population Scope Low Directly affects only federal contractors and their employees who handle clients' PII — a narrow commercial subset well under 10% of the U.S. population.
• Budgetary Magnitude Low The bill neither authorizes nor appropriates funds and contains no dollar amounts or funding streams.
• Legal / Regulatory Depth High Creates a new statutory mandatory debarment duty — converting what was executive-branch discretion into a binding legal obligation imposed on agency heads by statute for a defined class of contractor misconduct.
• Degree of Discretion Granted Low Mandatory 'shall debar' and 'shall suspend' language leaves agency heads no discretion on whether to act, only limited range on debarment length within the 1–5 year statutory band.
• Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium Requires recurring case-by-case adjudication by executive agency heads — assessing conviction or civil judgment triggers, gauging severity for debarment length, and conducting FAR-compliant proceedings — across the full federal contracting landscape.
• Temporal Commitment High Amends Title 41 U.S. Code with no expiration date or reauthorization requirement, so it persists indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal or amend it.