BILL NUMBER: SB 493	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 5, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 30, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Fuentes)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 10389.2 to the Public Contract Code,
relating to state property, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 493, as amended, Padilla. State surplus property.
   Existing law requires the Department of General Services to
perform various functions and duties with respect to state property.
Existing law authorizes the department to first offer appropriate
state surplus personal property to school districts, at less than
fair market value, prior to offering that property to the public, as
specified.
   This bill would impose additional requirements on the department
regarding disposal of state surplus computers, laptops, monitors, and
related computer equipment, as provided.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10389.2 is added to the Public Contract Code,
to read:
   10389.2.  (a) The department's policies and procedures regarding
the disposition of state surplus computers, laptops, monitors, and
related computer equipment shall do all of the following:
   (1) Facilitate the disposition of state surplus computers to
further the state policy of bridging the digital divide, as described
in subdivision (d) of Section 709 of the Public Utilities Code.
   (2) Authorize nonprofit entities that, in partnership with a
school district, operate a public computer center to further the
state policy of bridging the digital divide, as described in
subdivision (d) of Section 709 of the Public Utilities Code, to be
eligible for receipt of state surplus computers under Section 10389.1
and through approved disposition directly from a state agency.
   (3) Include a procedure enabling state agencies with surplus
computers to ascertain whether the nonprofit entities described in
paragraph (2) are interested in receiving those surplus computers.
The procedure shall include a preference for nonprofit entities
within the same geographic region as the state agency in order to
minimize transportation and disposition costs. 
   (4) Coordinate the disposition of state surplus computers with the
Federal Surplus Property Program. 
   (5) 
    (4)  Require that state agency documentation of the
disposition of surplus computers include a certification that all
confidential, sensitive, and personal information was removed from
the computers prior to disposition.
   (b) The department, in collaboration with the California
Technology Agency, shall promote increased awareness among state
agency officials of the requirement to remove from all state surplus
computers all confidential, sensitive, and personal information prior
of any disposition of those computers.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to enable recipients of grants under the federal American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to have access to computers
for use within the limited timeframe for which federal funding is
available, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.