Committee passes bill restricting contracting with entities that ‘discriminate’ with procurement threshold adjusted

The committee considered and passed Senate Bill 62, which applies the bill's discrimination definitions to state contracting and procurement. Sponsor Representative Jeff Wardlaw said the House accepted an amendment aligning the procurement-dollar threshold with existing statute, raising it to a $75,000 threshold rather than a $1,000 threshold.

Wardlaw described SB 62 as similar in definition to the earlier item on investment discrimination but aimed at procurement and contracting. No public witnesses were available to testify against SB 62 during the recorded segment and the committee passed the bill by voice vote.