Bill Text: FL S7036 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: School District Purchasing
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Failed) 2016-03-11 - Died in Fiscal Policy, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 350 (Ch. 2016-31) [S7036 Detail]
Download: Florida-2016-S7036-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2016 SB 7036 By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability 585-01765-16 20167036__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to school district purchasing; 3 amending s. 1010.04, F.S.; requiring each district 4 school board to use certain agreements and contracts 5 for purchasing nonacademic commodities and contractual 6 services under certain circumstances; requiring a 7 district school board to post a written justification 8 for certain determinations on the board’s website; 9 providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1010.04, Florida 14 Statutes, is amended to read: 15 1010.04 Purchasing.— 16 (1)(a) Purchases and leases by school districts and Florida 17 College System institutions shall comply with the requirements 18 of law and rules of the State Board of Education. 19 (b) For purchasing nonacademic commodities and contractual 20 services, each district school board must use the purchasing 21 agreements and state term contracts available under s. 287.056, 22 unless the district school board determines that it is not to 23 the economic advantage of that school district to use the 24 agreements and contracts. For each determination that the 25 agreements and contracts are not to the economic advantage of 26 the school district, the district school board must provide a 27 written statement justifying such determination and post the 28 statement on the district school board’s website. 29 (c)(b)Purchases and leases by state universities shall 30 comply with the requirements of law and regulations of the Board 31 of Governors. 32 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.