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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE BILL NO. 196
BY SENATOR MARIONNEAUX
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
PUBLIC CONTRACTS. Provides a preference for the purchase of steel pipe manufactured
in Louisiana. (8/15/11)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 38:2251.2, relative to public contracts; to provide a preference2
for steel pipe manufactured in this state; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 38:2251.2 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง2251.2. Preference for steel rolled in Louisiana 6
A. When purchasing steel or steel pipe, every person acting as purchasing7
agent for any agency, board, commission, department, or other instrumentality of the8
state or of a parish, municipality, or other unit of local government, including a levee9
board, drainage district, school board, or special district, shall purchase steel rolled10
or steel pipe manufactured in this state which is equal in quality to steel rolled or11
steel pipe manufactured outside the state, provided the cost of steel rolled or steel12
pipe manufactured in this state does not exceed by more than ten percent the cost13
of steel which is rolled or steel pipe manufactured outside the state. 14
B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply when sufficient quantities15
of steel rolled or steel pipe manufactured in Louisiana are not available.16 SB NO. 196
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The original instrument was prepared by Jerry J. Guillot. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Riley Boudreaux.
DIGEST
Marionneaux (SB 196)
Present law, relative to public contracts, provides that when purchasing steel, every person
acting as purchasing agent for any agency, board, commission, department, or other
instrumentality of the state or of a parish, municipality, or other unit of local government,
including a levee board, drainage district, school board, or special district, shall purchase
steel rolled in this state which is equal in quality to steel rolled outside the state, provided
the cost of steel rolled in this state does not exceed by more than 10% of the cost of steel
which is rolled outside the state. Provides that this preference does not apply when sufficient
quantities of steel rolled in this state are not available.
Proposed law retains present law and extends the preference to steel pipe manufactured in
this state.
Effective August 15, 2011.
(Amends R.S. 38:2251.2)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Transportation,
Highways, and Public Works to the original bill.
1. Clarifies that steel pipe must be of the same quality as out of state pipe to
qualify for the preference.