Bill Text: MS SB2792 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State and local government contracts; shall give preference to disabled veteran businesses in Mississippi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee [SB2792 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2010-SB2792-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2010 Regular Session

To: Fees, Salaries and Administration; Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Turner

Senate Bill 2792

AN ACT TO REQUIRE ALL AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER ENTITIES OF THIS STATE, AND ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF, TO GIVE PREFERENCE TO DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESSES DOING BUSINESS AS MISSISSIPPI FIRMS, CORPORATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  (1)  In letting contracts for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions and other entities of this state, and of any political subdivision of this state, shall give preference to disabled veteran businesses doing business as Mississippi firms, corporations or individuals, or which maintain Mississippi 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 Department of Finance and Administration may also give such preference whenever competing bids, in their entirety, are comparable.

     (2)  In implementing the provisions of subsection

(1) of this section, the following shall apply:

          (a)  The Department of Finance and Administration shall have the goal of three percent (3%) of all such contracts described in subsection (1) of this section to be let to such veterans;

          (b)  If no such veterans doing business in this state meet the quality of performance and price standards required in subsection (1) of this section, such preference shall not be required.

     (3)  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.

     (4)  As used in this section, the term "service disabled veteran business" means a business concern:

          (a)  Not less than fifty-one percent (51%) 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 (51%) of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans; and

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

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2010.