PRINTER'S NO. 2951
No. 2166 Session of 1986
INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, SAURMAN, BLACK, TRELLO, HERMAN, SIRIANNI,
STABACK, RAYMOND, SEMMEL, TRUMAN, FARGO, ITKIN, DEAL,
LEVDANSKY, MICHLOVIC, GEIST, GLADECK, ACOSTA, CARLSON,
PETRARCA, CIVERA, VROON, KASUNIC, BATTISTO, KENNEY, MRKONIC,
DISTLER, E. Z. TAYLOR, JOHNSON, OLASZ, FOX, COLAFELLA, MORRIS
AND NAHILL, FEBRUARY 12, 1986
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND COMMERCE,
FEBRUARY 12, 1986
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 3, 1978 (P.L.6, No.3), entitled "An
2 act to promote the general welfare and stimulate the economy
3 of the Commonwealth by requiring that all public bodies,
4 including the Commonwealth, its political subdivisions, and
5 all authorities, include in all contracts for construction,
6 reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or
7 maintenance of improvements of a permanent or temporary
8 nature, a provision that if any steel products are to be used
9 in the performance of the contract only steel products
10 produced in the United States shall be used, and imposing
11 liability for violation of this act," recording
12 identification numbers and steel sources.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 5(a) of the act of March 3, 1978 (P.L.6,
16 No.3), known as the Steel Products Procurement Act, amended July
17 9, 1984 (P.L.674, No.144), is amended to read:
18 Section 5. (a) No public agency shall authorize, provide
19 for or make any payments to any person under any contract
20 containing the provision required by section 4 unless, when
1 unidentified steel products are supplied under a contract, such
2 person has provided documentation including, but not limited to,
3 invoices, bills of lading, the identification number and the
4 source of the steel furnished, and mill certification that the
5 steel was melted and manufactured in the United States, which
6 establish that such person has fully complied with such
7 provision. If a steel product is identifiable from its face,
8 such person must submit certification which satisfies the public
9 agency that such person has fully complied with the provision
10 required by section 4. Any such payments made to any person by
11 any public agency which should not have been made as a result of
12 this section shall be recoverable directly from the contractor,
13 subcontractor, manufacturer or supplier who did not comply with
14 section 4 by either such public agency or the Attorney General
15 of Pennsylvania.
16 * * *
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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