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Senate committee debates and advances bill raising procurement threshold for park maintenance to $150,000
Summary
House Bill 1524 would raise the procurement threshold for repair, alteration and maintenance projects funded from the parks’ special maintenance appropriation to $150,000 for bidding/advertising purposes, agency officials told the Senate committee.
Senators heard from the Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism on a bill (House Bill 1524) to align several code sections so that the department’s repair, alteration and maintenance projects funded from its special maintenance appropriation would follow a $150,000 procurement threshold rather than the lower, older $50,000 threshold that triggers formal advertising and bid‑bond procedures.
Agency witnesses said Act 666, passed in 2023, raised the threshold in some parts of code but omitted a bidding/advertising provision; the draft before the…
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