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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 598
BY SENATOR ERDEY
PUBLIC CONTRACTS. Authorizes appropriate early childhood programs to engage in
cooperative purchasing. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 39:1701(3), relative to cooperative purchasing; to authorize2
appropriate early childhood programs to conduct cooperative purchasing; and to3
provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 39:1701(3) is hereby amended and reenact to read as follows: 6
ยง1701. Definitions of terms used in this Part7
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(3) "Local public procurement unit" means any parish, city, town,9
governmental body, and any other subdivision of the state or public agency thereof,10
public authority, public educational, health, or other institution, appropriate early11
childhood program as defined in R.S. 17:407.1, and to the extent provided by law,12
any other entity which expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of13
supplies, services, major repairs, and construction, and any nonprofit corporation14
operating a charitable hospital.15
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Erdey (SB 598)
Present law, relative to cooperative purchasing under the Procurement Code, authorizes local
public procurement units to engage in cooperative purchasing.
Defines "cooperative purchasing" as procurement conducted by or on behalf of more than
one public procurement unit or by a public procurement unit with an external procurement
activity or by a private procurement unit.
Defines "local public procurement unit" as any parish, city, town, governmental body, and
any other subdivision of the state or public agency thereof, public authority, public
educational, health, or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity
that expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of supplies, services, major repairs,
and construction, and any nonprofit corporation operating a charitable hospital.
Proposed law includes appropriate early childhood programs, developmentally appropriate
programs for children ages three to five years that are in compliance with DOE regulatory
guidelines and are approved by BESE, as local public procurement units authorized to
engage in cooperative purchasing. Otherwise retains present law.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 39:1701(3))