Chapter J - Disability Business Enterprises

Regulation Authority:

37-2.2

Purpose and Reason:

Concise Explanatory Statement For the purpose of supporting the fullest possible participation of small disadvantaged businesses owned and controlled by persons with disabilities or where sixty percent (60%) of the employees are persons with disabilities, or non-profit rehabilitation facilities in state funded and state directed public construction and projects and in state purchases of goods and services. Concise summary of proposed non-technical amendments: 1. requiring all entities awarded government contracts, through the Disability Business Enterprise Program, shall submit a report at the end of each quarter listing: the number persons with disabilities working employed on government contracts awarded, through the Disability Business Enterprise Program; the number of government contracts bid on, through the Disability Business Enterprise Program; and the number of government contracts awarded, through the Disability Business Enterprise Program in Section XI Reporting. 2. replacing the words “governmental bodies’ with the words “governmental entity” to conform to change in statute Technical Amendments updating the footnotes (phone numbers, email addresses, & text of general laws). No changes after posting