Bill Text: CA AB2037 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmentally preferable purchasing.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-09 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. [AB2037 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2037-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2037	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review
(Frazier (Chair), Achadjian (Vice Chair), Cooley, Hagman, Medina,
Quirk-Silva, and Salas)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 12400 of, and to add Section 12401.7 to,
the Public Contract Code, relating to public contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2037, as introduced, Committee on Accountability and
Administrative Review. Environmentally preferable purchasing.
   Existing law requires the Department of General Services, in
consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency,
members of the public, industry, and public health and environmental
organizations, to provide state agencies with information and
assistance regarding environmentally preferable purchasing, as
provided. It also requires the department to designate a single point
of contact for state agencies, suppliers, and other interested
parties to contact regarding environmentally preferable purchasing
issues.
   This bill would require the department to create a process to
track environmentally preferable purchases by a state agency,
department, and other state entities, and to annually post specified
information regarding these purchases on the department's Internet
Web site.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12400 of the Public Contract Code is amended to
read:
   12400.  For purposes of this chapter,  "environmentally
preferable purchases"   and  "environmentally
preferable purchasing" means the procurement or acquisition of goods
and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and
the environment when compared with competing goods or services that
serve the same purpose. This comparison shall take into
consideration, to the extent feasible, raw materials acquisition,
production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation,
maintenance, disposal, energy efficiency, product performance,
durability, safety, the needs of the purchaser, and cost.
  SEC. 2.  Section 12401.7 is added to the Public Contract Code, to
read:
   12401.7.  The Department of General Services shall create a
process to track environmentally preferable purchases by a state
agency, department, and other state entities. The department shall
annually post the type, quantity, and dollar amount of these
purchases made within a fiscal year on the department's Internet Web
site on or before January 1 of the subsequent fiscal year.