ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                           H.B. 811

House Bill No. 811

AN ACT concerning

Procurement - Percentage Price Preference - Environmentally Preferable

Products or Equipment

FOR the purpose of providing a certain price preference for environmentally
preferable products or equipment under certain circumstances; requiring the
Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations concerning the
establishment of a certain percentage price preference; requiring certain units of
State government to establish a list of acceptable environmentally preferable
products or equipment; requiring each unit of State government to review
certain procurement specifications and, to the extent practicable, require the
use of a percentage price preference in their purchase of environmentally
preferable products or equipment; defining a certain term; repealing certain
obsolete language; and generally relating to a percentage price preference for
the procurement of environmentally preferable products or equipment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 14-405
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 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) "ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PRODUCTS OR EQUIPMENT"
MEANS PRODUCTS, INCLUDING SUPPLIES, AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED AND
DESIGNED FOR UTILIZATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH A BROAD RANGE OF MEASURES
THAT PREVENT OR MINIMIZE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, INCLUDING:

(I)      RECYCLING;

(II)     RESOURCE CONSERVATION;

(III)   SOURCE REDUCTION;

(IV)    USE OF COMPONENTS THAT ARE FREE OF TOXIC OR
DEGRADING AGENTS OR CONTAIN THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TOXIC OR DEGRADING
AGENTS NECESSARY TO MEET APPLICABLE JOB SPECIFICATIONS;

(V)     USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; AND

(VI)    USE OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES; AND

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