SB257 Alabama 2020 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

State contracts, for goods and services, to create a statewide disadvantaged business enterprise program, to establish a study commission on disadvantaged business enterprises

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under current law, there is no priority for women- or minority-owned businesses within the law governing state contracts for goods or services</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would create a statewide disadvantaged business enterprise program. The Chief Procurement Officer would create a disadvantaged business enterprise certification process, and would identify programs designed to assist small and disadvantaged businesses</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would create a priority for disadvantaged business enterprises in bids for state contracts for goods or services</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also create a Study Commission on Disadvantaged Business Enterprises</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to state contracts for goods or services; to create a statewide disadvantaged business enterprise program; to direct the Chief Procurement Officer to establish a certification process by which a business may qualify as a disadvantaged business enterprise; to create a bidding priority for disadvantaged business enterprises; and to establish a study commission on disadvantaged business enterprises. </p>

Subjects

State Contracts