Bill Text: IL HB0554 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that specified municipalities may give preference to a qualified and responsive local business in the solicitation of bids for supplies, materials, and equipment or a contract for any work or public improvement. Includes requirements if a municipalities choses to give preferences under the Section. Excludes certain types of contracts and purchases from the provisions, and provides that application of the local business preference to a particular purchase, contract, or category of contracts may be waived at the discretion of a municipality's city council. Provides that the local preference established under the Section shall not be construed to inhibit, limit, or restrict the right or obligation of a municipality to compare and review the quality of materials proposed for purchase, and to compare and review the qualifications, character, responsibility, and fitness of all persons, firms, or corporations submitting bids or proposals. Provides that the specified municipalities shall adopt an ordinance, or modify existing ordinances or resolutions, that allows each municipality to give preference to a qualified and responsive local business in the manner permitted by the Section no later than January 1, 2022. Defines terms. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0554 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0554-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0554 Introduced , by Rep. William Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 605/605-1
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
is amended by changing Section 605-1 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1)
Sec. 605-1. Article short title. This Article 605 of the
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois may be cited as the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law.
(Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03.)