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                 SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1808

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives D. Sommers, D. Schmidt, Sherstad and Dunn)

Read first time 3/10/97.

Requiring public works projects over five thousand dollars for state agencies to be contracted by public notice and competitive bid or small works roster.

    AN ACT Relating to public works projects for state agencies; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The department of general administration, in cooperation with other state agencies, shall report to the alternative public works contracting methods oversight committee created in RCW 39.10.110 regarding methods to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of implementing state agency public works projects valued between two thousand dollars and three hundred thousand dollars.  The methods addressed in the report must include, but are not limited to, small works roster contracting and job order contracting.  The report shall be delivered by September 1, 1997.

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