Florida House Bill 153 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Appropriations Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Cites act as "Buy Florida Act"; requires agency, county, municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of state to grant specified preference to vendor located within state when awarding contract for printing; requires, rather than authorizes, agency, county, municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of state in making purchases of personal property through competitive solicitation to award preference to lowest responsible & responsive vendor having principal place of business within this state under specified circumstances; specifies percentages of preference to be granted.

Preference to Florida Businesses in Procurement of Personal Property and Services

Rep. Janet Adkins [R]	Rep. Larry Ahern [R]	Sen. Ed Hooper [R]	Rep. George Moraitis [R]
Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Appropriations Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch.
2012-02-17		On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee, 02/21/12, 3:00 pm, Webster Hall --Temporarily deferred
2012-01-25		Now in Appropriations Committee -HJ 283
2012-01-25		Favorable by Government Operations Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 -HJ 283
2012-01-23		On Committee agenda-- Government Operations Subcommittee, 01/25/12, 8:00 am, 306 HOB
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 19
2011-10-03		Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; State Affairs Committee -HJ 19
2011-09-19		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
283	35		Amended Code	See Bill Text
287	084		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/153
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0153/BillText/Filed/HTML