NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/21/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1224
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Gardner, Duran, Exum, Fields, Fischer, Foote,
      Garcia, Gerou, Ginal, Hamner, Hullinghorst, Kraft-Tharp, Labuda,
      Lebsock, Lee, Mitsch Bush, Priola, Rankin, Rosenthal, Ryden, Salazar,
      Schafer, Tyler, Waller, Williams, Wright, Young, Ferrandino;
      also SENATOR(S) Herpin, Aguilar, Crowder, Grantham, Guzman, Heath,
      Hodge, Jahn, Johnston, Kefalas, Kerr, King, Newell, Nicholson, Rivera,
      Roberts, Schwartz, Tochtrop, Todd, Ulibarri, Zenzinger, Carroll.
      
      
      Concerning a set aside goal in state procurement for
           service-disabled veteran owned small businesses.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 24-103-211 as
      follows:
      
           24-103-211.  Service-disabled veteran owned small businesses -
      state procurement set aside - definitions. (1)  As used in this section,
      unless the context otherwise requires:
      
           (a)  "Service-disabled veteran owned small business" means
      a business that is:
      
           (I)   Incorporated or organized in the state or that is
      maintaining a place of business or office in the state; and
      
           (II)  Officially registered and verified as a service-disabled
      veteran owned small business by the center for veterans
      enterprise within the United States department of veterans
      affairs.
      
           (b)  "State agency" means a principal department of the
      executive branch of state government as specified in section
      24-1-110, including any division, office, agency, or other unit
      created within a principal department, including institutions of
      higher education and the Colorado commission on higher
      education; except that "state agency" does not include those
      entities that have elected to be exempt from the code pursuant to
      section 24-101-105 (1) (b).
      
           (2)  In awarding all contracts that are subject to this code,
      the state shall have the goal of awarding at least three percent
      of all such contracts, by dollar value, to service-disabled
      veteran owned small businesses. To satisfy this goal, a state
      agency may grant a preference for service-disabled veteran
      owned small businesses.
      
           (3)  When a state agency intends to award a contract to a
      business in furtherance of the three percent goal specified in
      subsection (2) of this section, the state agency shall, prior to
      awarding the contract, require the business to submit to the
      agency documentation from the United States department of
      veterans affairs that verifies that the business is a
      service-disabled veteran owned small business.
      
           (4)  On or before September 30, 2015, and on or before
      September 30 each year thereafter, the executive director shall
      submit a report regarding the state's progress in satisfying the
      three percent goal established in this section to the department
      of military and veterans affairs, the members of the Colorado
      board of veterans affairs, and to the members of the committees
      of the house of representatives and the senate that have
      jurisdiction over state affairs and veterans affairs. The report
      shall include the following:
      
           (a)  The total number of contracts that all state agencies
      awarded to service-disabled veteran owned small businesses in
      the prior fiscal year and the number of such contracts that each
      state agency awarded;
      
           (b)  The total dollar amount of contracts that all state
      agencies awarded to service-disabled veteran owned small
      businesses in the prior fiscal year and the percentage that such
      dollar amount bears to the total dollar amount of contracts
      awarded by all state agencies in the prior fiscal year;
      
           (c)  The total dollar amount of contracts that each state
      agency awarded to service-disabled veteran owned small
      businesses in the prior fiscal year and the percentage that such
      dollar amount bears to the total dollar amount of contracts
      awarded by the state agency in the prior fiscal year; and
      
           (d)  The total number of service-disabled veteran owned
      small businesses that responded to solicitation for bids or
      proposals issued by all state agencies in the prior fiscal year and
      the total number of such businesses that responded to
      solicitations for bids or proposals issued by each state agency.
      
           SECTION 2.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO