HB0568 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0568

Introduced 2/5/2007, by Rep. Michael K. Smith

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 500/20-160 new

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Prohibits awarding a State contract to an entity that has or uses a foreign call service center. Effective immediately.

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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Procurement Code is amended by adding Section 20-160 as follows:

(30 ILCS 500/20-160 new)

Sec. 20-160. Foreign call service center. No State contract shall be awarded on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly to an entity that has or uses a foreign call service center. For the purpose of this Section, a "foreign call service center" is any facility located outside the territorial limits of the United States that receives or is intended to receive questions or messages, transmitted by any means, from the entity's current or potential customers or clients located within the territorial limits of the United States.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.