Plain English Breakdown
The bill has passed both chambers but an effective date is missing from the metadata.
Georgia Small Business Set-Aside Act
This bill creates a program for the Department of Administrative Services to help state agencies make reasonable efforts to award at least 20 percent of their annual contracts to small businesses.
What This Bill Does
- Establishes a small business set-aside program run by the Department of Administrative Services.
- Requires state agencies to try reasonably hard to give 20 percent of their yearly procurement contracts to projects involving small businesses.
- Sets up a way for companies to get certified as small businesses.
- Creates a list or directory of these certified small businesses.
- Needs an annual report on how the program is working.
- Allows officials to make rules needed to run this plan.
Who It Names or Affects
- State agencies in Georgia
- The Department of Administrative Services
- Small business owners who want state contracts
Terms To Know
- Procurement contracts
- Agreements where the government buys goods or services from a company.
- Set-aside program
- A system that reserves specific work opportunities for certain groups, in this case small businesses.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill says agencies must make 'reasonable efforts' to reach the goal but does not define exactly what those efforts are.
- The text provided does not list the specific rules or regulations that will be created later.
- An effective date is not listed in the source material.