FILED ON: 4/1/2014
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4004
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand Fourteen
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An Act relative to Chapter 30B.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 30B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 9 through 10, the words “thirty-eight A1/2 to thirty-eight O, inclusive, of chapter seven” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- 44 to 57, inclusive, of chapter 7C.
SECTION 2. Subsection (b) of said section 1 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out clause (5) and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-
(5) a contract for the purchase of materials, under specifications of the Massachusetts department of transportation highway division, and at prices established by the division, pursuant to advertising and bidding for such purpose, in connection with work to be performed under the provisions of chapter 81 or chapter 90;.
SECTION 3. Said section 1 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 104, the words “subclause (r)” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- subclause (s).
SECTION 4. Said section 1 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 128 and 129, the words “thirty-eight A1/2 to thirty-eight O, inclusive, of chapter seven” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- 44 to 57, inclusive, of chapter 7C.
SECTION 5. Section 16 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 43, the words “forty J of chapter seven” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- 38 of chapter 7C.
SECTION 6. Section 17 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 12, the words “two thousand dollars” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $10,000.
SECTION 7. Section 18 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 3-10, the definition of “Disadvantaged vendor” and inserting in place thereof the following definition:-
“Disadvantaged vendor”, any business beneficially owned by one or more minority persons in conformity with clauses (1) to (4), inclusive, of the definition of “Minority business” set forth in section 6 of chapter 7C, and any business beneficially owned by one or more women as provided in the definition of “Women-owned business” set forth in said section 6 and any business beneficially owned by 1 or more veterans as provided in the definition of “veteran-owned business” as set forth in section 6.
SECTION 8. Section 23 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby repealed.