House File 409 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  KRESSIG


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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the use of products produced using renewable
  2    resources by state entities.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1253YH 83
  5 tm/nh/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 73.1, Code 2009, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    73.1  PREFERENCE == CONDITIONS.
  1  4    1.  Every commission, board, committee, officer, or other
  1  5 governing body of the state, or of any county, township,
  1  6 school district, or city, and every person acting as
  1  7 contracting or purchasing agent for any such commission,
  1  8 board, committee, officer, or other governing body shall use
  1  9 only those the following and in doing so shall apply the
  1 10 following preferences in order of priority:
  1 11    a.  Those products and provisions grown and coal produced
  1 12 within the state of Iowa, when they are found in marketable
  1 13 quantities in the state and are of a quality reasonably suited
  1 14 to the purpose intended, and can be secured without additional
  1 15 cost over foreign products or products of other states.  This
  1 16 section subsection shall apply to horticultural products grown
  1 17 in this state even if the products are not in the stage of
  1 18 processing that the agency usually purchases the product.
  1 19 However, this section subsection does not apply to a school
  1 20 district purchasing food while the school district is
  1 21 participating in the federal school lunch program.
  1 22    b.  Products produced in this state using renewable
  1 23 resources, when such products are found in marketable
  1 24 quantities and are of a quality reasonably suited to the
  1 25 purpose intended, and can be secured without additional cost
  1 26 over foreign products or products of other states produced
  1 27 using renewable resources.
  1 28    c.  If products produced in this state using renewable
  1 29 resources are unavailable pursuant to paragraph "b", products
  1 30 produced using renewable resources, when such products are
  1 31 found in marketable quantities and are of a quality reasonably
  1 32 suited to the purpose intended, and can be secured without
  1 33 additional cost over products produced using no renewable
  1 34 products.
  1 35    2.  All requests for proposals for materials, products,
  2  1 supplies, provisions, and other needed articles and services
  2  2 to be purchased at public expense shall not knowingly be
  2  3 written in such a way as to exclude an Iowa=based company
  2  4 capable of filling the needs of the purchasing entity from
  2  5 submitting a responsive proposal.
  2  6                           EXPLANATION
  2  7    This bill relates to the use of products produced using
  2  8 renewable resources by state entities.
  2  9    The bill creates preferences in order of priority.  The
  2 10 first priority is for state entities to only use products and
  2 11 provisions grown and coal produced in the state.  Second
  2 12 priority is for state entities to use only products produced
  2 13 in this state using renewable resources, when such products
  2 14 are found in marketable quantities and are of a quality
  2 15 reasonably suited to the purpose intended, and can be secured
  2 16 without additional cost over foreign products or products of
  2 17 other states produced using renewable resources.  Third
  2 18 priority is if products produced in this state using renewable
  2 19 resources are unavailable, when such products are found in
  2 20 marketable quantities and are of a quality reasonably suited
  2 21 to the purpose intended, and can be secured without additional
  2 22 cost over products produced using no renewable resources.
  2 23 LSB 1253YH 83
  2 24 tm/nh/14