Outsourcing Legislation 2009 Year-End Summary
ARIZONA
AZ H 2576 Fleming (D)
Title: Procurement Services
Summary: Concerns procurement services; prohibits outsourcing.
Status: 02/17/2009: To House Committee on Government. Additionally referred to House Committee on Commerce. Additionally referred to House Committee on Rules.
AZ H 2577 Fleming (D)
Title: Outsourcing of State Service Positions
Summary: Concerns outsourcing; relates to state service positions; makes a prohibition.
Status: 02/17/2009: To House Committee on Government. Additionally referred to House Committee on Commerce. Additionally referred to House Committee on Rules.
AZ S 1214 Burton-Cahill (D)
Title: Procurement Services
Summary: Concerns procurement services; prohibits outsourcing.
Status: 06/04/2009: To Senate Committee on Government Institutions. Additionally referred to Senate Committee on Rules.
AZ S 1453 Hale (D)
Title: State Service Positions
Summary: Prohibits outsourcing of state service positions.
Status: 06/18/2009: Held in Senate Committee on Government Institutions. FLORIDA
FL H 1207 Bogdanoff (R)
Title: Procurement of Contractual Services in State Agency
Summary: Provides requirements with respect to provision of outsourced human services related to mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, or juvenile justice; defines terms; provides requirements with respect to contracts for such services; requires state agencies to identify specified costs to human
Status: 05/02/2009: In House. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration. FL H 7097 House Health Care Services Policy Committee
Title: Health and Human Services Contracts
Summary: contracts and access to provider data; requires community-based agencies to document federal earnings and return undocumented earnings; permits contracts with the agencies to be increased by excess federal earnings; authorizes outsourcing of certain foster care and related services.
Status: 05/02/2009: In Senate. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration. FL S 900 Bennett (R)
Title: Procurement of Contractual Services
Summary: Relates to procurement of contractual services; provides requirements with respect to the provision of outsourced human services related to mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, or juvenile justice; provides that failure by a governmental entity to negotiate a contract amendment or remedy a material adverse impact of a new governmental mandate constitutes an agency Status: 05/02/2009: In Senate. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration. FL H 11 a Bogdanoff (R)
Title: Procurement of Contractual Services
Summary: Provides requirements with respect to provision of outsourced human services related to mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, or juvenile justice; defines terms; provides requirements with respect to contracts for such services; requires state agencies to identify specified costs to human
Status: 01/14/2009: In House. Died. HAWAII
HI S 1136 Hanabusa (D)
Title: Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Outsourcing
Summary: Authorizes Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to outsource for services.
Status: 01/30/2009: To Senate Committee on Health. Additionally referred to Senate Committee on Labor.
ILLINOIS
IL H 3761 Walker (D)
Title: Job Preservation Act
Summary: Creates the Job Preservation Act of 2009. Provides that companies that lose 100 or more employees due to outsourcing of jobs are ineligible to receive procurement contracts with the State, units of local government, or school districts and to receive government grants, loans, tax incentives, or other economic incentives. Requires certain companies that lose 100 or more Status: 03/13/2009: Rereferred to House Committee on Rules.
IL H 4161 Connelly (R)
Title: Creates the Council on Efficient Government Act
Summary: Creates the Council on Efficient Government Act. Creates the council and sets forth its duties, including review of whether goods and services provided by State agencies should be privatized or outsourced to obtain cost savings or best value. Requires reports. Requires business case analyses. Sets forth outsourcing contract requirements. Requires the council to establish an accounting method. Exempts transportation construction.
Status: 03/13/2009: Rereferred to House Committee on Rules. IL S 257 Noland (D)
Title: Job Preservation Act of 2009
Summary: Creates the Job Preservation Act of 2009. Provides that companies that lose 100 or more employees due to outsourcing of jobs are ineligible to receive procurement contracts with the State, units of local government, or school districts and to receive government grants, loans, tax incentives, or other economic incentives. Requires certain companies that lose 100 or more Status: 08/15/2009: Rule 3-9(b)/ Re-referred to Assignments Committee.
INDIANA
IN H 1504 GiaQuinta (D)
Title: Cost Benefit Analysis Of Outsourcing
Summary: Requires a state agency to do a cost benefit analysis before entering into a contract for services; requires the department of administration to compile semiannual reports on the cost benefit
analysis for each contract.
Status: 01/14/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on Public Policy. LOUISIANA
LA EO 5 Office of the Governor
Title: Commission on Streamlining Government
Summary: Requires the examination of each state department or agency's constitutional and statutory functions, powers, duties and responsibilities to determine functions that can be eliminated, streamlined, consolidated, privatized or outsourced.
Status: 04/24/2009: Executive Order Issued By Governor LA S 261 Donahue (R)
Title: Streamlining State Government
Summary: Creates the Commission on Streamlining Government to examine each agency's activities, functions, programs, services, powers, duties, and responsibilities and to make recommendations concerning elimination, consolidation, privatization and outsourcing in an effort to reduce the size of state government.
Status: 07/10/2009: Signed by Governor. Act No. 491 MICHIGAN
MI H 4816 Walsh (R)
Title: State Payroll Outsourcing
Summary: Provides for true determination of cost of providing payroll services in state government and to bid the function to private vendors.
Status: 04/21/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on Government Operations. MINNESOTA
MN H 1530 Hornstein (DFL)
Title: Metropolitan Airports Commission
Summary: Relates to the Metropolitan Airports Commission; requires the commission to prohibit outsourcing of certain jobs.
Status: 03/09/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on State and Local Government Operations Reform, Technology and Elections.
MN S 1366 Dibble (DFL)
Title: Metropolitan Airports Commission
Summary: Relates to the Metropolitan Airports Commission; requires the commission to prohibit outsourcing of certain jobs.
Status: 03/12/2009: Introduced. To Senate Committee on State and Local Government Operations and Oversight.
MONTANA
MT D 14 Brueggeman
Title: Outsourcing
Summary: Revises state procurement laws to identify outsourcing.
Status: 08/24/2009: Draft request received. Prefiled for 2011 Session (no 2010 session). NEW HAMPSHIRE
NH H 133 Weed (D)
Title: Department of Labor
Summary: Requires companies that have reduced their employment to supply certain information to the department of labor including the number of jobs that were lost to outsourcing to foreign
countries.
Status: 03/18/2009: Retained in Committee for Action in Second Year of Session. NEW YORK
NY A 1480 Wright (D)
Title: New York Consumer and Worker Protection Act
Summary: Enacts the New York consumer and worker protection act; requires employers to provide notice of the outsourcing of jobs prior to such outsourcing; prohibits any governmental agency from engaging in the practice of outsourcing jobs; requires consumers be made aware and provide consent if such consumers nonpublic personal information is disclosed to nonaffiliated third parties by any corporation or other business entity.
Status: 01/07/2009: Introduced. To Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection. NY A 4250 Brodsky (D)
Title: Outsourcing of Jobs Regulations
Summary: Prohibits the outsourcing of jobs by business entities receiving state financial incentives; provides for repayment thereof and a five-year ban on assistance for violations; provides for enforcement by the Attorney General; requires state entities providing financial incentives to business entities Status: 02/02/2009: Introduced. To Assembly Committee on Economic Development.
NY A 5677 Ball (R)
Title: Denies Tax Benefits for Outsoucing to a Foreign entity
Summary: Denies tax benefits to any corporation that outsources any of its business to a foreign entity or country.
Status: 02/17/2009: Introduced. To Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. NY S 3814 Adams (D)
Title: York Consumer and Worker Protection Act
Summary: Enacts the New York Consumer and Worker Protection Act; requires employers to provide notice of the outsourcing of jobs prior to such outsourcing; prohibits any governmental agency from engaging in the practice of outsourcing jobs; requires consumers be made aware and provide consent if such consumers nonpublic personal information is disclosed to nonaffiliated third parties by any corporation or other business entity.
Status: 04/01/2009: Introduced. To Senate Committee on Consumer Protection. NORTH DAKOTA
ND SCR 4022 Krauter (D)
Title: Federal Tax Subsidies
Summary: Urges Congress and the President of the United States to enact federal legislation to repeal perverse federal tax subsidies to United States companies that move manufacturing operations and American jobs offshore.
Status: 03/20/2009: Passed House. PENNSYLVANIA
PA H 439 Petri (R)
Title: Agency Contract Prohibition
Summary: Amends the Procurement Code. Prohibits Commonwealth agencies from awarding contracts to bidders engaged in outsourcing of jobs or functions.
Status: 02/13/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on State Government. PA H 440 Petri (R)
Summary: Amends the Procurement Code. Prohibits Commonwealth agencies from awarding contracts to bidders engaged in outsourcing of jobs or functions.
Status: 02/13/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on State Government. PA H 441 Petri (R)
Title: Agency Contract Prohibition
Summary: Amends the Procurement Code. Prohibits Commonwealth agencies from awarding contracts to bidders engaged in outsourcing of jobs or functions.
Status: 02/13/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on State Government. PA H 1364 Goodman (D)
Title: Administrative Code of 1929
Summary: Amends The Administrative Code of 1929. Provides for private operation funds. Provides that no Commonwealth funds appropriated to the Department of Corrections may be used to privatize or outsource commissary services of State correctional institutions.
Status: 04/27/2009: Introduced. To House Committee on State Government. PUERTO RICO
PR H 1428 Cruz Soto (PPD)
Title: Government Contractor Service Billing
Summary: Amends existing law to establish that any contractor of any agency, instrumentality or agency of the Government of Puerto Rico must file a monthly bill for services rendered through government bills including those relative to outsourcing and subcontracting.
Status: 04/13/2009: Introduced. PR S 207 Muniz Cortes (PNP)
Title: Education Department Printing Services
Summary: Orders the Department of Education to use the program for production and dissemination of educational materials, commonly known as printing services, and to authorize the outsourcing of editorial projects in the private sector only when the number of jobs exceeds the capacity of the printing press.
Status: 01/13/2009: Introduced. TEXAS
TX H 581 Dukes (D)
Title: Outsource State Agency Service
Summary: Relates to outsourcing a service performed by a state agency to a private commercial contractor. Status: 02/18/2009: To House Committee on State Affairs.
TX H 2300 Davis Y (D)
Title: Outsourcing Jobs and State Funds
Summary: Relates to restrictions on the use of state funds to benefit private entities that outsource jobs to foreign countries.
Status: 03/09/2009: To House Committee on Technology, Economic Development & Workforce.
VIRGINIA
VA H 2207 Frederick (R)
Title: Budget Office
Summary: Establishes the Budget Office in the legislative branch of state government; provides that the Office will have the power and duty to prepare fiscal impact statements on legislation, investigate the operating efficiencies of state agencies, explore opportunities to privatize, outsource,
policies and strategies that can be instituted to streamline government programs. Status: 02/10/2009: Left in committee.
