SB 1178

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Under existing law, the administering agency for the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program is the Department of General Services, except in the case of contracts for professional bond services. Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines establishing a uniform process for state contracting to provide a disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) participation incentive to bidders, which all state agencies are required to use when awarding contracts. This bill would prohibit a business that is not a small business or microbusiness from being a DVBE if it has 10 or more participation years, as defined, in the program. The bill would require the Department of General Services to promulgate regulations for the implementation of this requirement, including regulations that ensure that a successor business bidding with the same awarding department counts its predecessor's participation years as its own if it is owned by one or more of the same people or their immediate family members.