SB318
Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; implementation of certification programs.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; implementation of certification programs for small businesses; definition of small business; report.
Changes the definition of small business, beginning July 1, 2019, to meet the small business size standards established by the regulations of the U.S. Small Business Administration. The bill provides that any business entity that the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity (the Department) has certified as a small ... (More) business prior to July 1, 2019, shall have such certification extended for a three-year period. The bill also provides that the Director of the Department adopt regulations that will, beginning July 1, 2019, establish a three-year certification period for small businesses to be based on the dominant business activity of each small business entity. The bill (i) includes a definition of "dominant business activity"; (ii) provides for the Department to enter into a memorandum of understanding with appropriate agencies establishing provisions for the sharing of information consistent with the requirements of state and federal law; (iii) authorizes the Director to terminate a contract with any independent certifying entities to assist in the certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses, service disabled veteran-owned businesses, and employment services organizations based on performance or a written determination by the Director that continuing the contract is not practicable; and (iv) requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to evaluate the effect of the implementation of the new definition at three-year intervals, reporting to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2022, and December 1, 2025. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2018 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103595D
- 01/08/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/15/2018 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/2018 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/18/2018 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/18/2018 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/18/2018 - Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/18/2018 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB318E
- 01/18/2018 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 18103595D-E
- 01/19/2018 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/22/2018 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB318E)
- 01/22/2018 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 17) Close Floor Vote
- 01/29/2018 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/29/2018 - House: Read first time
- 01/29/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/01/2018 - Senate: Fiscal impact review from JLARC (SB318E)
- 02/15/2018 - House: Reported from General Laws with amendment (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/15/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/22/2018 - House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology
- 02/28/2018 - House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2019
- 03/06/2018 - House: Left in Appropriations
