Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 712
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/15/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and
       General Government (Grall) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (398732) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 39 - 60
    5  and insert:
    6  its contractor a price quote for a change order requested or
    7  issued by the local governmental entity for construction
    8  services, and the price quote conforms to all statutory
    9  requirements and contractual requirements for the project, the
   10  local governmental entity must approve or deny the price quote
   11  and send written notice of that decision to the contractor
   12  within 35 days after receipt of such quote. A denial notice must
   13  specify the alleged deficiencies in the price quote and the
   14  actions necessary to remedy those deficiencies. If the local
   15  governmental entity fails to provide the contractor with a
   16  notice in compliance with this section, the change order and
   17  price quote are deemed approved, and the local governmental
   18  entity must pay the contractor the amount stated in the price
   19  quote upon the completion of the change order. A contract
   20  between a local governmental entity and a contractor may not
   21  alter the local governmental entity’s duties under this section.
   22         Section 3. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (2) of
   23  section 255.0992, Florida Statutes, to read:
   24         255.0992 Public works projects; prohibited governmental
   25  actions.—
   26         (2) Except as required by federal or state law, the state
   27  or any political subdivision that contracts for a public works
   28  project may not take the following actions:
   29         (d) When scoring or evaluating bids for a public works
   30  project, penalize a bidder for performing a larger volume of
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   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete lines 1063 - 1072
   35  and insert:
   36         providing that if a local governmental entity fails to
   37         provide the contractor with a certain notice, the
   38         change order and price quote are deemed approved and
   39         the local governmental entity must pay the contractor
   40         a certain amount upon completion of the change order;
   41         prohibiting contracts from altering specified duties
   42         of a local governmental entity; amending s. 255.0992,
   43         F.S.; prohibiting the state or political subdivisions
   44         that contract for public works projects from
   45         penalizing or rewarding bidders for performing larger
   46         or smaller volumes of construction work for the state
   47         or political subdivisions when scoring or evaluating
   48         certain bids; amending s. 399.035, F.S.;