HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 18-601

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Volume)

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

Article - State Finance and Procurement

18-601.

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

(2)  "Department" means the University of Maryland,
the Departments of General Services and Transportation, the
Maryland Food Authority, or the Interagency Committee on Public
School Construction, or, for procurements specified under Title
3, Subtitle 4 of the State Finance and Procurement Article, the
Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning.

(3)  "Minority business enterprise" means any legal
entity, other than a joint venture, organized to engage in
commercial transactions which is at least 51 percent owned and
controlled by one or more minority persons, or a nonprofit
entity organized to promote the interests of the physically or
mentally disabled.

(4)  "Minority person" means a member of a socially or
economically disadvantaged minority group, which for purposes of
this subtitle includes Blacks (not of Hispanic origin),
Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska natives, Asians, Pacific
Islanders, women, and the physically or mentally disabled.

(5)  "Certification" means the determination, through
whatever A procedure is used by a department OR OTHER PROCUREMENT
AGENCY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR RECOMMENDED BY THE
STATE MINORITY BUSINESS CERTIFICATION COUNCIL, that a legal
entity is a minority business enterprise for purposes of this
subtitle.

(6)  "Person" means an individual, association, sole
proprietorship, partnership, or corporation.

(b)  (1) Each department, except the Department of
Transportation as to construction contracts, shall structure its
procedures for procuring supplies, services, and construction to
attempt to achieve, consistent with the purposes of this
subtitle, the result that a minimum of 10 percent of the total
dollar value of such procurements are made directly or indirectly
from certified minority business enterprises.