Mississippi House Bill 558 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on January 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 31-7-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Public Purchasing And Bid Law Requirement To Authorize The Prequalification Of Contractors On High Complexity Construction Projects; To Define "high Complexity Construction Project" To Mean Medical, Clinical, Research, Laboratory, Archival, Data Center And Similar Projects At Which The Criticality Of Installed Systems Or Components Necessitate The Use Of Highly Skilled And Experienced Contractors; To Provide That This Procedure Of Construction Contracting May Be Used Only When The Department Of Finance And Administration Determines That The Prequalification Method For A Particular Project Satisfies The Public Need Better Than The Traditional Design-bid-build Method; To Require The Prequalification To Be Determined Not Less Than 15 Working Days Before The First Publication Notice Of The Bid Opening; To Establish The Prequalification Bid Criteria; And For Related Purposes.

Public purchasing and bid law requirements; authorize prequalification of contractors on "high complexity construction projects".

Rep. Tom Weathersby [R]

Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-30	House	Died In Committee
2018-01-08	House	Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf/history/HB/HB0558.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0558IN.htm