General Assembly Raised Bill No. 977
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3319
*03319_______LAB*
Referred to Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Introduced by:
(LAB)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 977
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3319
*03319_______LAB*
Referred to Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Introduced by:
(LAB)
AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS AND CONTRACTING PREFERENCES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) On or before January 1, 2012, the Commissioner of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Labor Commissioner and the Commissioners of Public Works and Transportation, shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-41 of the general statutes, to the Governor and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters related to labor. Such report shall include an analysis of any law or economic factor that results in a resident bidder being at a disadvantage to a nonresident bidder in submitting the lowest responsible qualified bid. Such report shall include recommendations for administrative or legislation action, within the confines of clause 3 of section 8 of article 1 of the United States Constitution, to increase the number of state contracts awarded to resident bidders through an in state contract preference or otherwise.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Labor Commissioner, in consultation with other contracting agencies, to submit a report to the labor committee analyzing the legal or economic reasons resident bidders often lose bids to nonresident bidders, and to submit recommendations for administrative or legislative action, within the confines of the commerce clause of the United States Constitution, to provide a preference in the award of contracts to resident bidders.
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