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H3424 • 2025

An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns

An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns

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Sponsor
Ultrino, Steven
Last action
2025-11-12
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns

An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns By Representatives Ultrino of Malden and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns By Representatives Ultrino of Malden and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3424) of Steven Ultrino and Carmine Lawrence Gentile relative to award contracts for cooperative purchasing agreements.
  • State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
  • Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-12 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-11-12 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-11-12 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-10-20 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-07-03 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/15/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act to enhance cooperative purchasing opportunities for cities and towns
By Representatives Ultrino of Malden and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3424) of Steven Ultrino and Carmine Lawrence Gentile relative to award contracts for cooperative purchasing agreements. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3424

Section 22 of chapter 30B of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph, the following paragraph: -

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this Chapter, public procurement units that conduct a cooperative purchasing agreement may award contracts to multiple offerors through a request for proposals if their chief procurement officer determines that doing so is in the best interests of the parties to the cooperative purchasing agreement.

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