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General Assembly

Amendment

  

February Session, 2008

LCO No. 5696

   
 

*SB0067905696SDO*

Offered by:

 

SEN. WILLIAMS, 29th Dist.

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

SEN. GAFFEY, 13th Dist.

SEN. HANDLEY, 4th Dist.

SEN. MCDONALD, 27th Dist.

SEN. STILLMAN, 20th Dist.

SEN. SLOSSBERG, 14th Dist.

To: Senate Bill No. 679

File No. 457

Cal. No. 296

After the last section, add the following and renumber sections and internal references accordingly:

"Sec. 501. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2009) (a) For the purposes of this section, "nonresident bidder" means a business that is not a resident of the state that submits a bid in response to an invitation to bid by a state contracting agency, "resident bidder" means a business that submits a bid in response to an invitation to bid by a state contracting agency and that has paid unemployment taxes or income taxes in this state during the twelve calendar months immediately preceding submission of such bid, has a business address in the state and has affirmatively claimed such status in the bid submission, "contract" means "contract" as defined in section 4e-1 of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes and "state contracting agency" means "state contracting agency as defined in section 4e-1 of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law, in the award of a contract, a state contracting agency shall add a per cent increase to the bid of a nonresident bidder equal to the per cent, if any, of the preference given to such nonresident bidder in the state in which such nonresident bidder resides.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2009, and each January thereafter, the State Contracting Standards Board shall publish a list of states that give preference to in-state bidders with the per cent increase applied in each state. Such list shall be made available to all state contracting agencies and may be relied upon by such agencies in determining the lowest responsible bidder. "