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Committee raises county bid threshold to $100,000 but keeps surety bonds over $25,000
Summary
The Local Government Transparency and Ethics Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 436 with an amendment that raises the county public-bid threshold from $25,000 to $100,000 while preserving a surety-bond requirement for contracts over $25,000; the measure passed out of committee to the floor.
The Local Government Transparency and Ethics Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 436 on a motion to pass the bill favorably as amended.
Committee staff described the bill as increasing the statutory threshold that triggers a required public-bid process for county construction contracts. "Currently, any contract in excess of $25,000 must be let out for bid," staff said, and the bill would change that to require…
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