House File 691 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  FORD


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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to state purchasing preferences and goals for
  2    minority=owned targeted small business.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2991HH 81
  5 jr/sh/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 8A.311, subsection 1, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  All equipment, supplies, or services procured by the
  1  4 department shall be purchased by a competitive bidding
  1  5 procedure.  However, the director may exempt by rule purchases
  1  6 of noncompetitive items and purchases in lots or quantities
  1  7 too small to be effectively purchased by competitive bidding.
  1  8 Preference shall be given to purchasing Iowa products and
  1  9 purchases from Iowa=based businesses if the Iowa=based
  1 10 business bids submitted are comparable in price to bids
  1 11 submitted by out=of=state businesses and otherwise meet the
  1 12 required specifications.  The department shall also give
  1 13 preference to a small business and a targeted small business
  1 14 owned by a minority person as defined in section 15.102,
  1 15 subsection 5, paragraph "b", if the bids are comparable in
  1 16 price to other bids submitted and otherwise meet the required
  1 17 specifications.  If the laws of another state mandate a
  1 18 percentage preference for businesses or products from that
  1 19 state and the effect of the preference is that bids of Iowa
  1 20 businesses or products that are otherwise low and responsive
  1 21 are not selected in the other state, the same percentage
  1 22 preference shall be applied to Iowa businesses and products
  1 23 when businesses or products from that other state are bid to
  1 24 supply Iowa requirements.
  1 25    Sec. 2.  Section 73.16, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph
  1 26 1, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1 27    The director of each agency or department of state
  1 28 government having purchasing authority shall establish a
  1 29 procurement goal from certified targeted small businesses or
  1 30 from targeted small businesses owned by minority persons, as
  1 31 defined in section 15.102, subsection 5, paragraph "b",
  1 32 identified pursuant to section 10A.104, subsection 8, of at
  1 33 least ten fifty percent of the value of anticipated
  1 34 procurements of goods and services, including construction,
  1 35 but not including utility services, each fiscal year.  The
  2  1 director of each department and agency of state government
  2  2 shall cooperate with the director of the department of
  2  3 inspections and appeals, the director of the department of
  2  4 economic development, and the director of the department of
  2  5 management and do all acts necessary to carry out the
  2  6 provisions of this division.
  2  7                           EXPLANATION
  2  8    This bill establishes a state government purchasing
  2  9 preference for small businesses and minority=owned targeted
  2 10 small businesses.  The bill also establishes a state
  2 11 government purchasing goal for small businesses and minority=
  2 12 owned targeted small businesses of 50 percent of the total
  2 13 value of state purchases.  Current law provides for a 10
  2 14 percent goal for all small business purchases.
  2 15 LSB 2991HH 81
  2 16 jr:rj/sh/8