GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

 

 

SESSION LAW 2005-169

HOUSE BILL 800

 

 

AN ACT requiring vendors bidding on state contracts to disclose whether services will be performed outside the united states.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Article 3 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 143-59.4.  Contracts performed outside the United States.

(a)       A vendor submitting a bid shall disclose in a statement, provided contemporaneously with the bid, where services will be performed under the contract sought, including any subcontracts, and whether any services under that contract, including any subcontracts, are anticipated to be performed outside the United States. Nothing in this section is intended to contravene any existing treaty, law, agreement, or regulation of the United States.

(b)       The Secretary of Administration shall retain the statements required by subsection (a) of this section regardless of the State entity that awards the contract and shall report annually to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the number of contracts which are anticipated to be performed outside the United States."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2005, and applies to all bids submitted after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2005.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Charlie S. Dannelly

                                                                         Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 12:59 p.m. this 7th day of July, 2005