Bill Text: FL H0899 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Preference in Award of State Contracts

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Governmental Affairs Policy (EDCA) [H0899 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0899-Introduced.html

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HB 899

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to preference in award of state contracts;
3	amending s. 287.084, F.S.; expanding provisions that
4	authorize an agency, county, municipality, school
5	district, or other political subdivision of the state to
6	provide preferential consideration to a Florida business
7	in awarding competitively bid contracts to purchase
8	personal property under specified circumstances to include
9	the purchase of construction services; providing that such
10	authority to grant preference supersedes any local
11	ordinance or regulation which grants preference to local
12	bidders; providing construction; providing an effective
13	date.
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15	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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17	Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 287.084, Florida
18	Statutes, is amended to read:
19	287.084 Preference to Florida businesses.-
20	(1)(a) When an agency, county, municipality, school
21	district, or other political subdivision of the state is
22	required to make purchases of personal property or construction
23	services through competitive solicitation and the lowest
24	responsible and responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a
25	vendor whose principal place of business is in a state or
26	political subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the
27	purchase of such personal property or construction services to a
28	person whose principal place of business is in such state, then
29	the agency, county, municipality, school district, or other
30	political subdivision of this state may award a preference to
31	the lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal
32	place of business within this state, which preference is equal
33	to the preference granted by the state or political subdivision
34	thereof in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor
35	has its principal place of business. However, this section does
36	not apply to transportation projects for which federal aid funds
37	are available.
38	(b)1. This section supersedes any local ordinance or
39	regulation which grants preference to a local bidder based upon
40	the bidder maintaining a local business office or a local
41	principal place of business or based upon payment by the bidder
42	of local taxes, assessments, or duties.
43	2. Except as provided in subparagraph 1., nothing in this
44	section prevents a county, municipality, school district, or
45	other political subdivision of this state from awarding a
46	contract to any bidder in accordance with applicable state laws
47	or local ordinances.
48	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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