Senate Bill No. 409
(By Senators Bowman and Rowe)
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[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §5A-3-22 of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to requiring the clerk of the
Senate to print the blue book every other year.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5A-3-22 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
5A. PURCHASING DIVISION.
§5A-3-22. Legislative printing.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the
letting of all contracts for legislative printing shall be subject
only to the provisions of this section.
(b) Upon request of the Legislature, or either house thereof,
all contracts for legislative printing shall be let on competitive
bids by the director to the lowest responsible bidder. No vendor,
or prospective vendor, may be deemed considered eligible for any contract under this section if the vendor owes a debt to the state
as provided for in section ten-a of this article. Each such
contract shall be subject to the approval of the governor, and in
case of his or her disapproval the contract shall be relet on
competitive bids submitted in the same manner as the original bids
on the contract that was disapproved. Each bid on every such
contract shall be within the maximum limits that may be fixed from
time to time by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. The
clerk of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Delegates shall
have exclusive control of all printing authorized by their
respective legislative bodies, and shall approve the specifications
included in any contract before an invitation for bids is released
by the director of purchasing. Before presenting for payment any
bill for such legislative printing, the printer shall have the same
it approved by the purchasing division as correct and according to
contract specifications. A copy of all bills for legislative
printing shall be furnished the clerk of the house for which such
the printing was done. When properly approved bills are presented
to the clerk of the Senate, or to the clerk of the House of
Delegates, he or she shall draw his or her requisition upon the
auditor in the amount of the bill, payable from the legislative
printing fund, and the auditor shall honor the requisition and
issue to the printer a state draft therefor.
(c) Without the necessity of a request by the Legislature or a house thereof, as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the
clerk of the Senate shall cause the printing of the Blue Book in
each of every other year.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to assure the regular and
timely printing of the Blue Book in every other year.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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