Report Title:

Small Business

Description:

Requires Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules to provide set asides to small businesses in appropriate classifications, and to impose mandatory evaluation criteria designed to encourage the use of small businesses as subcontractors on large contracts.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

559

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§103D- Preference for small businesses; set-asides; utilization as subcontractors. The procurement policy board shall adopt rules to promote the growth and development of small businesses including provisions that:

(1) Provide set-asides to small businesses in appropriate classifications of requirements susceptible to performance by small businesses; and

(2) Impose mandatory evaluation criteria designed to encourage the use of small businesses as subcontractors on large contracts not susceptible to performance by small businesses."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST