Got up early today so I could get a 6 mile run in. I met with one of the State Police’s liquor control detail officers this morning and talked about some issues in the district. We had a Local Government Committee meeting this morning where we passed a package of bills. These bills will raise the bidding limit requirements for all government entities. I sponsored the bill addressing counties. The law now requires counties and others to advertise, in a newspaper of daily circulation, requests for bids on items over 10,000 dollars in value. They can get more informal quotations on items over 4,000 dollars in value but less than 10,000. These ads cost local government 10′s of millions each year. The bills passed today increase the bid limits to 25,000 dollars and the quote limits to 7,000 dollars. These limits have not been raised in 17 years. Almost all of our surrounding states have done this. Everyone involved thinks that this is a good idea except the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association; their members will loose money.
- John
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