Bill Text: MO HB2344 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires agencies and political subdivisions to give a three-point preference to a service-disabled veteran business when letting a contract for any job or service

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Veterans (H) [HB2344 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB2344-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2344

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WRIGHT (Sponsor), TODD, KRAUS, FISHER (125), STREAM, DAY, NIEVES, CUNNINGHAM, WILSON (119) AND BRUNS (Co-sponsors).

5364L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 34.074, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to a preference for disabled veteran businesses in the letting of certain contracts.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 34.074, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 34.074, to read as follows:

            34.074. 1. As used in this section, the term "service-disabled veteran" means any individual who is disabled as certified by the appropriate federal agency responsible for the administration of veterans' affairs.

            2. As used in this section, the term "service-disabled veteran business" means a business concern:

            (1) Not less than fifty-one percent of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than fifty-one percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans; and

            (2) The management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans.

            3. In letting contracts for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions, and other entities of this state and of each political subdivision of this state shall give a three-point bonus preference to service-disabled veteran businesses doing business as Missouri firms, corporations, or individuals, or which maintain Missouri offices or places of business[, when the quality of performance promised is equal or better and the price quoted is the same or less. The commissioner of administration may also give such preference whenever competing bids, in their entirety, are comparable].

            4. In implementing the provisions of subsection 3 of this section, the following shall apply:

            (1) The commissioner of administration shall have the goal of three percent of all such contracts described in subsection 3 of this section to be let to such veterans;

            (2) If no or an insufficient number of such veterans doing business in this state [meet the quality of performance and price standards required in subsection 3 of this section] submit a bid or proposal for a contract let by an agency, department, institution, or other entity of the state or a political subdivision, such [preference] goal shall not be required and the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not apply.

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