94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4787

 

Introduced 1/18/2006, by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 500/45-63 new

    Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Awards a bid preference to State contract bidders based on the number of their employees, hired more than 30 days but less than 18 months before the bid, who receive benefits from the bidder. Requires that the bidder be located within 5 miles of an Illinois municipality with certain levels of unemployment, parolee population, median household income, and minority population.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning procurement.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by
5 adding Section 45-63 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 500/45-63 new)
7     Sec. 45-63. Bidders located near certain municipalities.
8     (a) An otherwise qualified State contract bidder shall be
9 awarded a preference as against other bidders on that contract
10 in an amount calculated pursuant to subsection (b) if the
11 bidder at the time the bid is submitted is located within 5
12 miles of an Illinois municipality that has all of the
13 following:
14         (1) A rate of unemployment equal to or greater than the
15     statewide average, according to the most recent federal
16     census.
17         (2) A parolee population that is at least 0.8% of the
18     State's total parolee population, as certified by the
19     Department of Corrections.
20         (3) A median household income of $57,000 or less,
21     according to the most recent federal census.
22         (4) A minority population, as a percentage of the
23     municipality's total population, equal to or greater than
24     the statewide average, according to the most recent federal
25     census.
26     (b) The preference awarded under subsection (a) shall be an
27 amount equal to a percent, not to exceed 20%, of the bidder's
28 contract bid amount that is the sum of the following:
29         (1) 1%, multiplied by the number of the bidder's
30     part-time qualified employees.
31         (2) 2%, multiplied by the number of the bidder's
32     full-time qualified employees who do not receive benefits

 

 

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1     from the bidder.
2         (3) 3%, multiplied by the number of the bidder's
3     full-time qualified employees who receive benefits from
4     the bidder.
5      A "qualified employee" is an employee hired more than 30
6 days and less than 18 months before the bid is submitted.