Bill Text: HI HB1768 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Procurement; Bid Ceiling Limit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1768 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1768-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Procurement; Bid Ceiling Limit

 

Description:

Raises the ceiling for bid security requirements from $25,000 to an unspecified sum.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1768

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

Relating to Procurement.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 103D-323, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Unless the policy board determines otherwise by rules, bid security shall be required only for construction contracts to be awarded pursuant to sections 103D-302 and 103D‑303 and when the price of the contract is estimated by the procurement officer to exceed [$25,000] $         or, if the contract is for goods or services, the purchasing agency secures the approval of the chief procurement officer.  Bid security shall be a bond provided by a surety company authorized to do business in the State, or the equivalent in cash, or otherwise supplied in a form specified in rules."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009 and that this Act shall be repealed on July 1, 2012; provided that section 103D-323(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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