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                                                                  SB 301
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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                  SB 301 (DeSaulnier) - As Amended:  June 26, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              Jobs and Economic 
          Development  Vote:                            6-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Office of the Small Business Advocate 
          (OSBA), located within the Governor's Office of Business and 
          Economic Development (GO-Biz), to post specified information 
          about the Department of General Services' small business 
          advocate on its website.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor and absorbable costs for Go-Biz

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose.   According to the author, the Office of Small 
            Business Advocate only lists the name and telephone numbers of 
            individual department small business liaisons on its website, 
            not the name and phone number of the DGS advocate.  The author 
            notes current law requires DGS to maintain an outreach and 
            education program to assist certified small businesses in 
            accessing state procurement processes and requires each state 
            department to designate a small business advocate as a liaison 
            to small business suppliers.  

           2)Small Business Preferences.   The Small Business Act (SBA), 
            administered through DGS, was implemented more than 30 years 
            ago to increase the participation of small business within the 
            state's procurement process.  In 1989, a disabled veteran 
            owned business enterprise (DVBE) component and a 3% annual 
            procurement participation goal were added to SBA.  While 
            existing law has no annual small business goal, since 2001 
            there have been four Executive Orders (EOs) specifying a 25% 








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            annual goal for small business participation in state 
            procurement.  The DGS small business advocates helps small 
            businesses interact with the state.

           3)History  .  SB 301 has not been heard in the Senate; it was a 
            gut-and-amend in the Assembly Jobs Committee.

           4)There is no registered opposition to this bill  .



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081