Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 538
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                Floor: 4/AD/2R         .                                
             03/01/2012 11:48 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. As used in this section, the term “other political
   17  subdivision of this state” does not include counties or
   18  municipalities.
   19         Section 3. Section 287.084, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   20  read:
   21         287.084 Preference to Florida businesses.—
   22         (1)(a) When an agency, university, college, county,
   23  municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of
   24  the state is required to make purchases of personal property
   25  through competitive solicitation and the lowest responsible and
   26  responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a vendor whose
   27  principal place of business is in a state or political
   28  subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the purchase
   29  of such personal property to a person whose principal place of
   30  business is in such state, then the agency, university, college
   31  county, municipality, school district, or other political
   32  subdivision of this state shall may award a preference to the
   33  lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal
   34  place of business within this state, which preference is equal
   35  to the preference granted by the state or political subdivision
   36  thereof in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor
   37  has its principal place of business. In a competitive
   38  solicitation in which the lowest bid is submitted by a vendor
   39  whose principal place of business is located outside the state
   40  and that state does not grant a preference in competitive
   41  solicitation to vendors having a principal place of business in
   42  that state, the preference to the lowest responsible and
   43  responsive vendor having a principal place of business in this
   44  state shall be 5 percent.
   45         (b) Paragraph (a) However, this section does not apply to
   46  transportation projects for which federal aid funds are
   47  available.
   48         (c) As used in this section, the term “other political
   49  subdivision of this state” does not include counties or
   50  municipalities.
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   52  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   53         And the title is amended as follows:
   54         Delete lines 5 - 12
   55  and insert:
   56         requiring an agency, university, college, school
   57         district, or other political subdivision of the state
   58         to grant a specified preference to a vendor located
   59         within the state when awarding a contract for
   60         printing; specifying the percentage of preference to
   61         be granted; amending s. 287.084, F.S.; requiring,
   62         rather than authorizing, an agency, university,
   63         college, school district, or other political