HB1207 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1207

Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 500/1-15.56 new

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Defines the term "procurement". Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

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 1-15.56 as follows:

(30 ILCS 500/1-15.56 new)

Sec. 1-15.56. Procurement. "Procurement" means, unless otherwise provided, the process of procuring specific goods, supplies, services, professional or artistic services, construction, leases of real property (whether the State is the lessor or lessee) or capital improvements, and includes master contracts (but not orders off of master contracts), contracts for financing through the use of installment or lease purchase arrangements, renegotiated contacts, amendments to contracts, and change orders. Procurements occur during the time period beginning with the time an agency has identified and internally approved a need for the purchase of goods or services described above and continuing through the publication of an award notice or other completion of a final procurement action, the resolution of any protests, and the expiration of any protest or Procurement Policy Board review period, if applicable.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect immediately.