HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Enterprise by July 31 of each year beginning in 1979, the
total number and value of its purchases from minority
business enterprises, and the percentage which those
purchases represent of its total number and value of its
purchases for the preceding fiscal year.

(d)  A department may suspend the provisions of
subsection (b) if it concludes they conflict with any
applicable federal program requirement. Any such suspension
shall be in writing and shall be included with the report
required by subsection (c).

(e)  This [section] SUBTITLE shall have no further
force and effect after June 30, 1983.

SECTION 16. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
69 through 73, respectively, of Article 78A - Public Works,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be and they are hereby
transferred, with amendments, to be Section(s) 8-701
through 8-705, respectively, to be under the new subtitle
"Subtitle 7. Steel Procurement for Public Works", of the new
Article 21 - Procurement, of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
to read as follows:

ARTICLE 21 - PROCUREMENT

SUBTITLE 7. STEEL PROCUREMENT FOR PUBLIC WORKS

[69.] 8-701.

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

(b) [(1) "Contract" means all types of agreements and
orders for the procurement or disposal of supplies,
services, construction, or any other item.

(2)  "Contract" includes awards and notices of
award; contracts of a fixed price, cost,
cost-plus-a-fixed-fee, or incentive types; contracts
providing for the issuance of job orders, task orders, or
task letters thereunder; letter contracts, and purchase
orders.

(3)  "Contract" also includes supplemental
agreements with respect to any of the foregoing.]

[(c)] "Person" means a natural person, corporation,
partnership, or other business unit or association.

[(d)] (C) "Public agency" means:

(1) The State of Maryland, its departments,
agencies, boards, commissions, and institutions; and