SB 630, as introduced, Hancock. Public contracts: bidders: cost overruns.
Existing law prohibits a state agency or department, as specified, from awarding a public works or purchase contract to a bidder or contractor who has been convicted in the preceding 5 years of violating a state or federal law respecting the employment of undocumented aliens, and prohibits such bidder or contractor from being eligible to bid for or receive a public works or purchase contract.
This bill would additionally prohibit a state agency or department from awarding a public works or purchase contract to a bidder or contractor without requesting information from the bidder or contractor about cost overruns on previous public works projects or purchase contracts awarded to that bidder or contractor.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 6102 is added to the Public Contract
2Code, to read:
No state agency or department shall award a public works
4or purchase contract to a bidder or contractor without requesting
5information from the bidder or contractor about cost overruns on
P2 1previous public works projects or purchase contracts awarded to
2that bidder or contractor.
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