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Panel approves bill raising competitive-bid threshold for local public works to $250,000
Summary
The subcommittee advanced House Bill 137 to raise the statutory threshold at which public projects must be publicly advertised and competitively awarded from $100,000 to $250,000, a change advocates said responds to inflation and would speed delivery of smaller projects.
A committee member presented House Bill 137 to raise the contract threshold for public procurement from $100,000 to $250,000 for certain local government purchases, including school districts and counties. The presenter said inflation has increased costs and that the change would modernize numerous code sections that currently reference the $100,000 cap.
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