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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Richardson</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to add Section 11148.5.1 to the Government Code, relating to small businesses. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Small business liaison: contract information.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, led by the Small Business Advocate, and sets forth its powers and duties relating to advocacy on behalf of small businesses and providing small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace. </html:p>
                        <html:p>Existing law requires a state agency that significantly regulates small business or that significantly impacts small business to designate at least one person to serve as a small business liaison for the agency. Existing law requires these state agencies to notify the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and the Department of General Services of specified information, including the name and contact information of the agency’s small business
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                        <html:p>This bill would require the small business liaison for each state agency to annually submit specified contract information to the Office of Small Business Advocate, including, among other things, a list of all contracts of the state agency that include a subcontract with a small business. The bill would require the Office of Small Business Advocate to post that contract information on its internet website.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 11148.5.1 is added to the
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                The small business liaison for each state agency shall annually submit the following information to the Office of Small Business Advocate:
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                                                                (1)
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                                                                (A)
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                                                                A list of all current contracts between the state agency and a small business.
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                                                                (B)
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                                                                A list of all contracts of the state agency that include a subcontract with a small business.
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                                                                (2)
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                                                                The total dollar amount of each contract, as described in paragraph (1).
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                                                                (3)
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                                                                The total dollar amount paid to a small business under a contract or subcontract, as described in paragraph (1).
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                                                                (b)
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                                                                The Office of Small Business Advocate shall post the information received pursuant to subdivision (a) on its internet website.
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