Bill Text: FL H0153 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Preference to Florida Businesses in Procurement of Personal Property and Services

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Appropriations Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch. [H0153 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0153-Introduced.html

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HB 153

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to preference to Florida businesses in
3	procurement of personal property and services;
4	providing a short title; amending s. 283.35, F.S.;
5	requiring an agency, county, municipality, school
6	district, or other political subdivision of the state
7	to grant a specified preference to a vendor located
8	within the state when awarding a contract for
9	printing; specifying the percentage of preference to
10	be granted; amending s. 287.084, F.S.; requiring,
11	rather than authorizing, an agency, county,
12	municipality, school district, or other political
13	subdivision of the state in making purchases of
14	personal property through competitive solicitation to
15	award a preference to the lowest responsible and
16	responsive vendor having a principal place of business
17	within this state under specified circumstances;
18	specifying the percentage of preference to be granted;
19	providing nonapplicability; providing an effective
20	date.
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22	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24	Section 1.  This act may be cited as the "Buy Florida Act."
25	Section 2.  Section 283.35, Florida Statutes, is amended to
26	read:
27	283.35  Preference given printing within the state.-Every
28	agency shall give preference to vendors located within the state
29	When awarding a contract contracts to have materials printed,
30	the agency, county, municipality, school district, or other
31	political subdivision of this state awarding the contract shall
32	grant a preference to the lowest responsible and responsive
33	vendor having a principal place of business within this state.
34	The preference shall be 5 percent if the lowest bid is submitted
35	by a vendor whose principal place of business is located outside
36	the state and if the whenever such printing can be performed in
37	this state done at no greater expense than the expense of
38	awarding a contract to a vendor located outside the state and
39	can be done at a level of quality comparable to that obtainable
40	from the a vendor submitting the lowest bid located outside the
41	state.
42	Section 3.  Section 287.084, Florida Statutes, is amended
43	to read:
44	287.084  Preference to Florida businesses.-
45	(1)(a)  When an agency, county, municipality, school
46	district, or other political subdivision of the state is
47	required to make purchases of personal property through
48	competitive solicitation and the lowest responsible and
49	responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a vendor whose
50	principal place of business is in a state or political
51	subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the purchase
52	of such personal property to a person whose principal place of
53	business is in such state, then the agency, county,
54	municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of
55	this state shall may award a preference to the lowest
56	responsible and responsive vendor having a principal place of
57	business within this state, which preference is equal to the
58	preference granted by the state or political subdivision thereof
59	in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor has its
60	principal place of business. In a competitive solicitation in
61	which the lowest bid is submitted by a vendor whose principal
62	place of business is located outside the state and that state
63	does not grant a preference in competitive solicitation to
64	vendors having a principal place of business in that state, the
65	preference to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor
66	having a principal place of business in this state shall be 5
67	percent.
68	(b)  Paragraph (a) However, this section does not apply to
69	transportation projects for which federal aid funds are
70	available.
71	(2)  If a solicitation provides for the granting of such
72	preference as is provided in this section, Any vendor whose
73	principal place of business is outside the State of Florida must
74	accompany any written bid, proposal, or reply documents with a
75	written opinion of an attorney at law licensed to practice law
76	in that foreign state, as to the preferences, if any or none,
77	granted by the law of that state to its own business entities
78	whose principal places of business are in that foreign state in
79	the letting of any or all public contracts.
80	Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

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