CHAPTER NUMBER: 591 
File Code: Procurement
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 185  
- Sponsored By: 
- 
Senators Conway, Trotter, Pinsky, Sfikas, McCabe, Madden, Dyson,
Dorman, Hollinger, Collins,
 Blount, Frosh, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled: 
- 
State Procurement - Information Technology - Nonvisual Access
Requiring the Chief of Information Technology in the Department of
Budget and Management, in consultation with specified persons, to
develop for inclusion in State procurement contracts, after a
specified date, a clause regarding nonvisual access to information
technology; providing specified exceptions; defining a term; and
requiring that each procurement contract include a clause covering the
requirements for nonvisual access to information technology.
Senate Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs & Budget and Taxation
- 2/11
- Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/12
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/17
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/10
- Senate Concur - House Amendment
-      Third Reading Passed (46-0)
-      Passed Enrolled
- 5/21
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 591
House Action
- 3/18
- First Reading Commerce and Government Matters
- 3/25
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:15 p.m.
- 4/9
- Favorable Report by Commerce and Government Matters
- 4/4
- Favorable Report Adopted
-      Floor Amendment (Delegate Doory) Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/5
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-1)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Senator Decatur W. Trotter, District 24
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BLIND PERSONS
- BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- COMPUTERS
- CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
- DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND PERS; DEAF PERS. DEV. DISABL
- PROCUREMENT
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS -see also- TELEPHONES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   State Finance and Procurement
- (
 3-402 ,
 3-412 ,
 13-218 
)
- Bill Text:
 First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
- Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 314312/1 (PDF)      Offered on: March 13, 1998      at:
11:22 a.m.     Status: Adopted
- House 
- Number: 453804/1 (PDF)      Offered on: April 9, 1998       at:
10:24 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 17, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)
- April 10, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)
- House 
- April 5, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (134-1)
 
 
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