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Relating to prequalification requirements for competitive quotations and competitive bids for the construction of public safety infrastructure and purchase of public safety technology
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Government agencies can now use special rules to limit who they work with when building public safety buildings or buying safety technology. These rules allow them to reject products, software, or companies that come from countries not in NATO. This change affects how local and state governments choose contractors and equipment for public safety projects.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to prequalification requirements for the construction of public safety infrastructure for and purchase of public safety technology by a governmental entity. Under current law, a governmental entity shall not impose any requirement that directly or indirectly restricts potential bidders to a predetermined class of bidders defined by certain criteria. The bill allows a governmental entity to use prequalification requirements to limit quotations or disqualify bids involving any product, technology, software, design, or company from a country that is not a member of the north Atlantic treaty organization for the construction of public safety infrastructure for or the purchase of public safety technology by the governmental entity.
House subcommittee
Named February 6, 2024. Meeting: Tuesday, February 13 · 12:00 PM · RM 19.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
1 for · 2 against · 13 undecided · Who →