ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                               Ch. 92

(V) BOARD AND STAFF EXPENSES SHALL BE PROVIDED FOR IN THE
COUNTY BUDGET.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved April 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 92
(Senate Bill 473)

AN ACT concerning

Procurement - Percentage Price Preference for Recycled Materials -

Chicken Litter

FOR the purpose of establishing a certain percentage price preference for items made
with processed and pasteurized chicken litter; altering the definition of a certain
term; providing for a certain effective date; and generally relating to a
percentage price preference for chicken litter.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 14-405
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Finance and Procurement

14-405.

(a)     (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2)     (i) "Recycled materials" means material recovered from or
otherwise destined for the waste stream.

(ii) "Recycled materials" includes post-consumer material,
industrial scrap material, compost, PROCESSED AND PASTEURIZED CHICKEN LITTER
and obsolete inventories.

(3)     "Percentage price preference" means the percent by which a
responsive bid from a responsible bidder whose product contains recycled materials
may exceed the lowest responsive bid submitted by a responsible bidder whose
products do not contain recycled materials.

(b)     No later than January 1, 1994, the Board shall adopt regulations that
require the Secretary of General Services, the Secretary of Transportation, and the

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