CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1766

 

 

                   Chapter 109, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

BIDS ON PUBLIC WORKS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 12, 1999

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 8, 1999

  Yeas 46   Nays 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1766  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved April 23, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

           April 23, 1999 - 3:27 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


H-0543.3  _______________________________________________

 

                          HOUSE BILL 1766

          _______________________________________________

 

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Romero, McMorris, D. Schmidt, Dunshee, Miloscia, Conway, Campbell, Lambert and Haigh

 

Read first time 02/04/1999.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Requiring identification of subcontractors in bids on public works. 


    AN ACT Relating to bids on public works; and amending RCW 39.30.060.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 39.30.060 and 1995 c 94 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Every invitation to bid on a contract that is expected to cost ((in excess of)) one ((hundred thousand)) million dollars or more for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the state or a state agency or municipality as defined under RCW 39.04.010((,)) or an institution of higher education as defined under RCW 28B.10.016((, or a school district)) shall require each bidder to submit as part of the bid, or within one hour after the published bid submittal time, the names of the subcontractors ((whose subcontract amount is more than ten percent of the bid price)) with whom the bidder, if awarded the contract, will subcontract for performance of the work ((designated on the list to be submitted with the bid)) of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing as described in chapter 18.106 RCW, and electrical as described in chapter 19.28 RCW, or to name itself for the workThe bidder shall not list more than one subcontractor for each category of work identified, unless subcontractors vary with bid alternates, in which case the bidder must indicate which subcontractor will be used for which alternate.  Failure of the bidder to submit as part of the bid the names of such subcontractors or to name itself to perform such work or the naming of two or more subcontractors to perform the same work shall render the bidder's bid nonresponsive and, therefore, void.  The requirement of this section to name the bidder's proposed heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical subcontractors applies only to proposed heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical subcontractors who will contract directly with the general contractor submitting the bid to the public entity.


    Passed the House March 12, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 8, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 23, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 1999.