BILL NUMBER: SB 630	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 6102 to the Public Contract Code, relating
to public contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 630, as introduced, Hancock. Public contracts: bidders: cost
overruns.
   Existing law prohibits a state agency or department, as specified,
from awarding a public works or purchase contract to a bidder or
contractor who has been convicted in the preceding 5 years of
violating a state or federal law respecting the employment of
undocumented aliens, and prohibits such bidder or contractor from
being eligible to bid for or receive a public works or purchase
contract.
   This bill would additionally prohibit a state agency or department
from awarding a public works or purchase contract to a bidder or
contractor without requesting information from the bidder or
contractor about cost overruns on previous public works projects or
purchase contracts awarded to that bidder or contractor.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 6102 is added to the Public Contract Code, to
read:
   6102.  No state agency or department shall award a public works or
purchase contract to a bidder or contractor without requesting
information from the bidder or contractor about cost overruns on
previous public works projects or purchase contracts awarded to that
bidder or contractor.