Bill Text: NJ A4211 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

New Jersey Assembly Bill 4211 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-08 - Substituted by S2249 [A4211 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4211-Comm_Sub.html

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

ASSEMBLY, Nos. 4211 and 506

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

ADOPTED NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Lopez, Assemblyman Bergen, Assemblywomen Piperno and Eulner

SYNOPSIS

Revises number of qualified disabled veterans' businesses required to designate set-aside contract from three to two.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

Substitute as adopted by the Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee.

An Act concerning set-aside contracts for disabled veterans and amending P.L.2015, c.116.

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Section 4 of P.L.2015, c.116 (C.52:32-31.4) is amended to read as follows:

4. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any State bidding or public contracts laws to the contrary, but subject to any supervening federal statutes or rules, contracting agencies, in consultation with the department, may designate a contract, or a portion thereof, for goods, equipment, construction or services to be awarded by a contracting agency as a disabled veterans' business set-aside contract pursuant to the goals and procedures established in this act, whenever there is a reasonable expectation that bids may be obtained from at least [three] two qualified disabled veterans' businesses capable of furnishing the desired goods, equipment, construction or services at a fair and reasonable price. The designation shall be made prior to the advertisement for bids.

b. When application of the goals and procedures established under this act would jeopardize the State's participation in a program from which the State receives federal funds or other benefits, the contracting agency may, in consultation with the department, withdraw the affected contracts from consideration or calculation.

(cf: P.L.2015, c.116, s.4)

2. This act shall take effect immediately.