Amends Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, after exhausting the list of master contracts and cooperative agreements, procurement expenditures necessary for the Department of Public Health, the Department of Agriculture, the Illinois State Police, or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to operate State laboratories are exempt from the Code.
House Floor Amendment No. 2: Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, after exhausting any procurement method available through a contract already established under a chief procurement officer joint purchasing program or cooperative purchasing program, procurement expenditures by or on behalf of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Agriculture, the Illinois State Police, the Department of Natural Resources, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for laboratory supplies, laboratory equipment, software necessary for laboratory operations, or service contracts that are necessary for the applicable agency to operate State laboratories are exempt from the Code. Provides that the exemption applies only if the applicable State agency has made a good faith determination that it is necessary and appropriate for the expenditure to fall within the exemption.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 30 ILCS 500/1
Engrossed: 30 ILCS 500/1