GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1194

Short Title:  State Purchasing System Enhancement.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Plyler; Dalton, Lee, Odom, Perdue, and Purcell.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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May 25, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ENHANCE THE STATE'S PURCHASING PROGRAM AND THEREBY REDUCE THE COST OF OBTAINING GOODS AND SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143-49(6) reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-49. Powers and duties of Secretary.
The Secretary of Administration shall have power and authority, and it shall be his duty, subject to the provisions of this Article:
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(6)	To make available to nonprofit corporations operating charitable hospitals, to local nonprofit community sheltered workshops or centers that meet standards established by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Health and Human Services, to private nonprofit agencies licensed or approved by the Department of Health and Human Services as child placing agencies, residential child-care facilities, private nonprofit rural, community, and migrant health centers designated by the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development, to private higher education institutions that are defined as "institutions"in G.S. 116-22(1), and to counties, cities, towns, governmental entities and other subdivisions of the State and public agencies thereof in the expenditure of public funds, the services of the Department of Administration in the purchase of materials, supplies and equipment under such rules, regulations and procedures as the Secretary of Administration may adopt. In adopting rules and regulations any or all provisions of this