HB 352 -- STATE PURCHASING AND PRINTING (Hobbs)

COMMITTEE OF ORIGIN:  Special Committee on General Laws

This bill increases the current five-point bonus bidding
preference given by the Commissioner of the Office of
Administration to a 10-point bonus for products and services
manufactured, purchased, or assembled in qualified nonprofit
organizations for the blind and in sheltered workshops if the
nonprofit organization provides the greater of 2% or $5,000 of
the total contract for purchases not exceeding $10 million.

For Fiscal Year 2008, the Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education will pay each sheltered workshop $75 per standard work
week worked by a handicapped employee and $15 per standard work
day for work performed by handicapped employees in excess of the
standard work week.  For Fiscal Year 2009, the weekly per-worker
amount is increased to $85 and the daily per-worker amount to
$17; for Fiscal Year 2010, $90 per week and $18 per day; and for
Fiscal Year 2011 and thereafter, $95 per week and $19 per day.

FISCAL NOTE:  Estimated Effect on General Revenue Fund of an
income of $9,945 in FY 2008, a cost of $5,709,060 in FY 2009, and
a cost of $7,137,450 in FY 2010.  Estimated Cost on Other State
Funds of $9,945 in FY 2008, $0 in FY 2009, and $0 in FY 2010.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated July 25, 2007 at 11:18 am