Bill Text: FL S0538 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Preference to Florida Businesses in Procurement of Personal Property and Services
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch. [S0538 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-S0538-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Preference to Florida Businesses in Procurement of Personal Property and Services
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7087 (Ch. [S0538 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-S0538-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2012 SB 538 By Senators Bogdanoff and Gaetz 25-00370B-12 2012538__ 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. 21 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 23 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.—Every28agency shall give preference to vendors located within the state29 When awarding a contractcontractsto 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 thewhenever suchprinting can be performed in 37 this statedone at no greater expense than the expense of38awarding a contract to a vendor located outside the state and39can be doneat a level of quality comparable to that obtainable 40 from theavendor submitting the lowest bid located outside the 41 state. 42 Section 3. Section 287.084, Florida Statutes, is amended to 43 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 shallmayaward 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 sectiondoes not apply to 69 transportation projects for which federal aid funds are 70 available. 71 (2)If a solicitation provides for the granting of such72preference 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.