Senate File 283 - IntroducedEnrolled SENATESenate FILEFile 283 BYAN COMMITTEEACT ONRELATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO SSBCONFLICTS 1094)OF AINTEREST BILLIN FORCERTAIN AnGOVERNMENT ActPUBLIC relatingCONTRACTS. to conflicts of interest in certain government public contracts.

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A contract entered into in violation of thisSenate sectionFile is283, void.p.

2 this section is void.

Contracts not otherwise permitted by this section, for the purchase of goods or services by a county, which benefit a LSBcounty 1729SVofficer (2)or 88employee, -1-if ec/rnthe 1/3purchases S.F.benefiting that officer or employee do not exceed a cumulative total purchase price of one six thousand five hundred dollars in a fiscal year.

283 county officer or employee, if the purchases benefiting that officer or employee do not exceed a cumulative total purchase price of one six thousand five hundred dollars in a fiscal year.

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EXPLANATION______________________________ The______________________________ inclusionCHARLES ofSCHNEIDER thisLINDA explanationUPMEYER doesPresident notof constitutethe agreementSenate withSpeaker of the explanation’sHouse substanceI byhereby thecertify membersthat ofthis bill originated in the generalSenate assembly.and is known as Senate File 283, Eighty-eighth General Assembly.

Current______________________________ CodeW. provisions generally restrict school board members and city and county officers and employees from entering into contracts with the applicable governmental entity or having an interest, direct or indirect, in a contract with the entity.

TheCHARLES prohibitionSMITHSON doesSecretary not,of however, apply to contracts if purchases benefiting the individualSenate doApproved not_______________, exceed2019 specified______________________________ valueKIM thresholdsREYNOLDS inGovernor a fiscal year.

The current thresholds are $2,500 for school board members, $1,500 for county officers or employees, $1,500 for officers or employees of a city with a population of more than 2,500, and $2,500 for officers or employees of a city with a population of 2,500 or less.

This bill increases all such contract threshold amounts to $6,000.

By operation of law, the threshold amount changes in the bill also apply to other provisions governing school board members and provisions governing certain school organizations and clubs under Code section 298A.15, port authorities under Code chapter 28J, regional transit districts under Code chapter 28M, and LSB 1729SV (2) 88 -2- ec/rn 2/3 S.F.

283 county enterprise commissions under Code section 331.471.

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