1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Equal Opportunity from ESG Act . 2. Purpose Acknowledging that distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are, by their very nature, odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality, and recognizing that existing regulations have failed to eradicate the use of racial hiring quotas among Federal contractors, the purpose of this Act is to require contracts with the Federal Government to include an equal opportunity clause prohibiting racial hiring quotas, benchmarks, or goals. 3. Definitions For purposes of this Act: (1) Contractor The term contractor — (A) means any person that is awarded a contract with the Federal Government or a subcontract under such a contract, including any subcontractor (at any tier) of such person; and (B) includes a person that— (i) is a lessor or lessee; or (ii) is an employer of a worker performing work on a contract with the Federal Government whose wages are calculated pursuant to a special certificate issued under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 214(c) ). (2) Employment practices The term employment practices — (A) means all terms and conditions of employment (including of any paid or unpaid fellowship or internship), including all practices relating to the screening, recruitment, referral, nomination, selection, training, appointment, promotion, demotion, and assignment of personnel; and (B) includes advertising, hiring, assignments, classification, discipline, layoff and termination, upgrading, transfer, leave practices, rate of pay, fringe benefits, or other forms of pay or credit for services rendered and use of facilities. (3) Executive agency The term executive agency has the meaning given that term in section 133 of title 41, United States Code. (4) National interest The term national interest — (A) means a national security interest, economic interest, or public health and welfare interest