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55	55	1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 168 By: Hicks
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to state property; defining terms;
66	66	establishing requirements for purchasing certain
67	67	goods or equipment; providing exceptio ns; creating a
68	68	differential pricing preference for the cost of goods
69	69	manufactured or produced in the United States of
70	70	America; providing for codification; and providing an
71	71	effective date.
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77	77	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
78	78	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
79	79	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 53 of Title 61, unless there is
80	80	created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
81	81	A. As used in this section:
82	82	1. “Manufactured or produc ed in the United States ” means a
83	83	product that has all manufacturing processes occurring in the United
84	84	States. All components of the product must be of United States
85	85	origin. A component is considered to be a product of United States
86	86	origin if all of its m anufacturing processes occur in the United
87	87	States, notwithstanding the origin of it subcomponents; and
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139	139	2. “Public building or public work ” means any structure,
140	140	building, highway, waterway, street, bridge, transit system,
141	141	airport, or other betterment, work , or improvement, whether of a
142	142	permanent or temporary nature and whether for governmental or
143	143	proprietary use. The term includes , but is not limited to , any
144	144	railway, street railway, subway, elevated and passenger and rail
145	145	rolling stock, self-propelled cars, gallery cars, locomotives,
146	146	passenger buses, wires, poles and equipment for e lectrification of a
147	147	transit system, rails, tracks, roadbeds, guideways, elevated
148	148	structures, buildings, schools, hospitals, stations, terminals,
149	149	docks, shelters, and repairs to a ny such public building or public
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151	151	B. Any agency or entity of this state, or any person making
152	152	purchases on behalf of such agency or entity, shall require any
153	153	contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair,
154	154	improvement, or maintena nce of a public building or public work with
155	155	an estimated contract price excee ding One Hundred Thousand Dollars
156	156	($100,000.00), to state that all iron, steel, and aluminum to be
157	157	used in the completion of such contract shall be manufactured or
158	158	produced in the United States. All solicitation documents for such
159	159	contracts shall clearly state such requirement. Any bid or proposal
160	160	that does not affirmatively attest that the bidder read and
161	161	understood such requirement shall not be considered by the agency or
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213	213	entity, or person making purchases on behalf of such agency or
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215	215	C. An agency or entity of this state may submit a written
216	216	appeal to the State Purchasing Director to exempt a contract from
217	217	the requirements of subsection B of this section. The appeal sh all
218	218	include information demonstrating that:
219	219	1. Such requirements are inconsistent with the public interest;
220	220	2. A particular material to be used in the completion of the
221	221	contract is not produced or manufactured in the United States in
222	222	sufficient and reaso nably available quantities and with satisfactory
223	223	quality; or
224	224	3. Using materials produced or manufactured in the United
225	225	States shall increase the cost of construction, reconstruction,
226	226	alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of a public building
227	227	or public work by more than twenty -five percent (25%).
228	228	The State Purchasing Director shall give public notice of the
229	229	appeal upon its receipt in a manner that the State Purchasing
230	230	Director determines shall give adequate notice to the public and to
231	231	individuals, firms, or corporations that intend to submit or have
232	232	submitted bids or propos als for such contracts for public buildings
233	233	or public works. The State Purchasing Director shall allow seven
234	234	(7) calendar days for public comment on the appeal. If after the
235	235	public comment period the State Purchasing Director authorizes the
236	236	exemption of a contract from the requirements of subsection B of
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288	288	this section, he or she shall provide public notice of the
289	289	authorization in the same method used to provide public notice of
290	290	the appeal.
291	291	D. A state agency or entity shall notify the State Purchasing
292	292	Director if it suspects an individual, firm, or corporation is
293	293	intentionally violating the requirements of subsection B of this
294	294	section. If the State Purchasing Director determines after a review
295	295	of the contract and the actions of the individual, firm, or
296	296	corporation that an intentional violation has taken place, the
297	297	individual, firm, or corporation shall be ineligible to, and shall
298	298	not, bid on a state contract for a period of five ( 5) years. Such
299	299	individual, firm, or corporation shall have the right to appea l the
300	300	decision of the State Purchasing Director to a court of competent
301	301	jurisdiction.
302	302	E. The provisions of this section shall not apply if a
303	303	reciprocal trade agreement or treaty has been negotiated by this
304	304	state or by the United States on behalf of or including this state
305	305	with a foreign nation or government for nondiscriminatory
306	306	governmental procurement practices or policies with such foreign
307	307	nation or government.
308	308	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 5.
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