FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 1014

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WRIGHT (Sponsor), FISHER, DAY, STREAM, KRAUS, YATES, PEARCE, KUESSNER, WITTE AND JETTON (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 28, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2nd time March 1, 2007 and referred to the Special Committee on Veterans March 1, 2007.

                  Reported from the Special Committee on Veterans March 6, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f).

                  Reported from the Committee on Rules March 13, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

                  Perfected by Consent March 27, 2007.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

2376L.02P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 34, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to state purchasing.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 34, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 34.074, to read as follows:

            34.074. 1. In letting contracts for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions, and other entities of this state and of each political subdivision of this state shall give preference to disabled veterans with thirty percent or more disability who are doing business as Missouri firms, corporations, or individuals, or which maintain Missouri offices or places of business, when the quality of performance promised is equal or better and the price quoted is the same or less. The commissioner of administration may also give such preference whenever competing bids, in their entirety, are comparable.

            2. In implementing the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, the following shall apply:

            (1) The commissioner of administration shall have the goal of three percent of all such contracts described in subsection 1 of this section to be let to such veterans;

            (2) If no such veterans doing business in this state meet the quality of performance and price standards required in subsection 1 of this section, such preference shall not be required.

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