Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 538
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/01/2012 11:26 AM       .                                
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       Senator Bogdanoff moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 70
    4  and insert:
    5  the agency, university, college, school district, or other
    6  political subdivision of this state awarding the contract shall
    7  grant a preference to the lowest responsible and responsive
    8  vendor having a principal place of business within this state.
    9  The preference shall be 5 percent if the lowest bid is submitted
   10  by a vendor whose principal place of business is located outside
   11  the state and if the whenever such printing can be performed in
   12  this state done at no greater expense than the expense of
   13  awarding a contract to a vendor located outside the state and
   14  can be done at a level of quality comparable to that obtainable
   15  from the a vendor submitting the lowest bid located outside the
   16  state.
   17         Section 3. Section 287.084, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   18  read:
   19         287.084 Preference to Florida businesses.—
   20         (1)(a) When an agency, university, college, county,
   21  municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of
   22  the state is required to make purchases of personal property
   23  through competitive solicitation and the lowest responsible and
   24  responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a vendor whose
   25  principal place of business is in a state or political
   26  subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the purchase
   27  of such personal property to a person whose principal place of
   28  business is in such state, then the agency, university, college
   29  county, municipality, school district, or other political
   30  subdivision of this state shall may award a preference to the
   31  lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal
   32  place of business within this state, which preference is equal
   33  to the preference granted by the state or political subdivision
   34  thereof in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor
   35  has its principal place of business. In a competitive
   36  solicitation in which the lowest bid is submitted by a vendor
   37  whose principal place of business is located outside the state
   38  and that state does not grant a preference in competitive
   39  solicitation to vendors having a principal place of business in
   40  that state, the preference to the lowest responsible and
   41  responsive vendor having a principal place of business in this
   42  state shall be 5 percent.
   43         (b) Paragraph (a) However, this section does not apply to
   44  transportation projects for which federal aid funds are
   45  available.
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   47  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   48         And the title is amended as follows:
   49         Delete lines 5 - 12
   50  and insert:
   51         requiring an agency, university, college, school
   52         district, or other political subdivision of the state
   53         to grant a specified preference to a vendor located
   54         within the state when awarding a contract for
   55         printing; specifying the percentage of preference to
   56         be granted; amending s. 287.084, F.S.; requiring,
   57         rather than authorizing, an agency, university,
   58         college, school district, or other political