Pennsylvania HB 1216: An Act amending Title 62 (Procurement) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in intergovernmental relations, prohibiting school districts from participating in, sponsoring, conducting or administering a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of roof construction.

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PRINTER'S NO. 1422 

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL 

No.

1216 

Session of 

2019 

INTRODUCED BY TOPPER, BERNSTINE, BOBACK, DOWLING, KAUFFMAN, 

KEEFER, MASSER, MILLARD, PICKETT, ZIMMERMAN AND MOUL, 

APRIL 15, 2019 

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 15, 2019 

AN ACT

Amending Title 62 (Procurement) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 

Statutes, in intergovernmental relations, prohibiting school 

districts from participating in, sponsoring, conducting or 

administering a cooperative purchasing agreement for the 

procurement of roof construction.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 1902 of Title 62 of the Pennsylvania 

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 1902. Cooperative purchasing authorized.

[A] (a) General rule.--Except as provided under subsection 

(b), a public procurement unit may either participate in, 

sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing 

agreement for the procurement of any supplies, services or 

construction with one or more public procurement units or 

external procurement activities in accordance with an agreement 

entered into between the participants. The Department of General 

Services is authorized to enter into cooperative purchasing 

contracts solely for the use of local public procurement units 

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or State-affiliated entities. The department shall enter into 

cooperative purchasing contracts for the use of local public 

procurement units or State-affiliated entities if the number of 

contractors under a previously existing contract for the same 

supply or service is reduced to a single contractor or reduced 

by more than 50% of the number existing on September 30, 2003, 

and shall award such contracts pursuant to section 517 (relating 

to multiple awards) using an invitation for bids. Nothing in 

this section shall prohibit a local public procurement unit or 

State-affiliated entity from participating in or procuring from 

other cooperative purchasing agreements awarded by the 

department. Cooperative purchasing may include, but is not 

limited to, joint or multiparty contracts between public 

procurement units and open-ended purchasing agency contracts 

which are made available to local public procurement units.

(b) Exception.--A school district may not participate in, 

sponsor, conduct or administer a cooperative purchasing 

agreement for the procurement of roof construction.

Section 2. The amendment of 62 Pa.C.S. § 1902 shall apply to 

cooperative purchasing agreements solicited, entered into or 

renewed on or after the effective date of this section.

Section 3. This act shall take effect in 90 days.

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