Bill Text: PA HB1656 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for competitive sealed bidding.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-14 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB1656 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1656-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2098
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1656 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY STURLA, V. BROWN, COHEN, DeLUCA, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GEIST, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MATZIE, MUNDY, MURT, MYERS, WAGNER AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 14, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 14, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 62 (Procurement) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for competitive sealed bidding.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 512(a) of Title 62 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
§ 512. Competitive sealed bidding.
(a) Conditions for use.--Contracts shall be awarded by
competitive sealed bidding except as otherwise provided in
subsection (i) or section 511 (relating to methods of source
selection).
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(i) Mandatory competitive bidding.--Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, every Commonwealth agency,
every independent Commonwealth agency, the State Treasurer, the
Attorney General, the Auditor General, the General Assembly and
all legislative agencies and the Judicial Department shall use
competitive bidding in awarding any contract with a private
collection agency.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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