OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
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sSB-473
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE CONTRACTING STANDARDS
BOARD.
As Amended by Senate "A" (LCO 5857)
House Calendar No.: 531
Senate Calendar No.: 339
Primary Analyst: LG 4/30/22
Contributing Analyst(s):
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact:
Agency Affected Fund-Effect FY 23 $ FY 24 $
Various State Agencies Various -
Potential Cost
See Below See Below
Note: Various=Various
Municipal Impact: None
Explanation
This bill requires the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) to
include estimated expenditure requirements from the State Contracting
Standards Board (SCSB) in proposed budget documents and prohibits
the governor from reducing SCSB's allotment requisition or allotments
in force. This is not anticipated to result in a fiscal impact.
Privatization laws are expanded under this bill to include an analysis
or a proposed contract's potential impact on workers of color or workers
who are women. Various state agencies may incur a cost to the extent
they require additional staff to conduct this analysis.
This bill makes other various changes to the SCSB's authority which
is not anticipated to result in a fiscal impact.
Senate "A" strikes the original bill and its associated fiscal impact,
thus becoming the bill with the above referenced fiscal impact. 2022SB-00473-R01-FN.DOCX Page 2 of 2
The Out Years
The annualized ongoing fiscal impact identified above would
continue into the future subject to inflation.
The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely
for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General
Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of
informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is
consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any
specific department.