Erdey (SB 598) Act No. 498
Prior law, relative to cooperative purchasing under the Procurement Code, authorized local
public procurement units and private procurement units to engage in cooperative purchasing.
Defined "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.
Defined "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.
Defined "private procurement unit" as any independent institution of higher education in this
state.
New law retains prior law and includes an early childhood learning center as defined in prior
law in the definition of "private procurement unit".
Prior law (R.S. 46:1403(A)(6)) defined "early childhood learning center" as any child day
care center, Early Head Start grantee, Head Start grantee, or stand-alone prekindergarten or
kindergarten that is not attached to a school and that is licensed by the state.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 39:1701(4))