STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 182

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman KAVANAUGH)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 29, 1996

      These amendments make technical changes to the provisions of the bill affecting entities other than State government. The amendments recast the new powers to make purchases from the Federal Supplies Schedule as amendments to existing law rather than supplementary superseding changes. The amendments also clarify that the new purchase procedures will be implemented under uniform State regulatory authority rather than independent non-State entity authority.

      The amendments further clarify that the provisions of the bill affecting the powers of the Director of Purchase and Property to enter into interstate agreements for the purchase of goods do not override certain existing laws affecting goods produced by inmates under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.