Bill Text: PA HB1276 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for applicability.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-16 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB1276 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1276-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1510
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1276 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DALLY, CLYMER, FABRIZIO, FLECK, FREEMAN, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, HORNAMAN, MURT, MUSTIO, PICKETT, PYLE, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH AND SOLOBAY, APRIL 16, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 16, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 3, 1978 (P.L.6, No.3), entitled "An
act to promote the general welfare and stimulate the economy
of the Commonwealth by requiring that all public bodies,
including the Commonwealth, its political subdivisions, and
all authorities, include in all contracts for construction,
reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or
maintenance of improvements of a permanent or temporary
nature, a provision that if any steel products are to be used
in the performance of the contract only steel products
produced in the United States shall be used, and imposing
liability for violation of this act," further providing for
applicability.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4 of the act of March 3, 1978 (P.L.6,
No.3), known as the Steel Products Procurement Act, is amended
to read:
Section 4. (a) Every public agency shall require that every
contract document for the construction, reconstruction,
alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of public works
contain a provision that, if any steel products are to be used
or supplied in the performance of the contract, only steel
products as herein defined shall be used or supplied in the
performance of the contract or any subcontracts thereunder.
(b) This section shall not apply in any [case where] of the
following cases:
(1) If the head of the public agency, in writing,
determines that steel products as herein defined are not
produced in the United States in sufficient quantities to
meet the requirements of the contract.
(2) If a public agency, in order to comply with
subsection (a), must reject a steel product from a company
incorporated in this Commonwealth and must, as a result,
authorize the supply of the steel product from a company
located in another state.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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