SB-1055, As Passed House, December 18, 2014

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 1055

     A bill to amend 1937 PA 153, entitled

"An act relative to printing for this state; to establish the

requirements of responsible bidders; to provide exemptions from

this act; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the

provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts

inconsistent with the provisions of this act,"

by amending section 1 (MCL 24.61).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 1. (1) All printing for which the that this state is

chargeable, or which that is paid for with funds appropriated

wholly or in part by the this state, excepting that which is

printed printing for primary school districts, counties, townships,

cities, villages, or legal publications ordered for or by elective

state officers, must be printed within the state, and shall bear

the label of the branch of the allied printing trades council of

the locality in which they are it is printed, except under the

following conditions:

(a) 1. Printing firms not having the use of the allied

printing trades council union label in the locality in which it is

printed and who are desirous of presenting bids for printing as

enumerated above shall be in this section are required to establish

consideration as a responsible bidder as follows:

(i) (a) As a condition to consideration as a responsible bidder

printing concerns must file with the secretary of state a sworn

statement to the effect that employees in the employ of the concern

which that is to produce such the printing are receiving the

prevailing wage rate and are working under conditions prevalent in

the locality in which the work is produced.

(ii) (b) Whenever a collective bargaining agreement is in

effect between an employer and employees who are represented by a

responsible organization which that is in no way influenced or

controlled by the management, such that agreement and its

provisions shall be are considered as conditions prevalent in said

that locality and shall be are the minimum requirements for being

adjudged a responsible bidder under this act.

(iii) (c) Printing firms having the use of the allied printing

trades council union label shall be deemed are considered as having

complied with the provisions of this act, but nothing in these

provisions shall be construed as exempting such those bidders from

any provision of the act, and such those bidders shall also be are

required to conform with all of its provisions.

(b) 2. The state-owned printing establishment in the state

prison of southern Michigan shall be operation in the G. Robert

Cotton correctional facility is exempt from the above provisions:

Provided, however, That this institution this section. However, the

state-owned printing operation described in this subdivision shall

not perform printing under this section other than the needs and

requirements of this institution.the department of corrections.

(c) 3. Legislative printing, including bills and resolutions

passed by the legislature, shall be printed or reproduced in

accordance with and subject to article 4 IV of the state

constitution of 1963, and pursuant to the specifications, terms,

and conditions deemed considered necessary by the legislative

council.

     (2) For all printing described in subsection (1), all other

things being equal, preference shall be given for printing offered

by Michigan-based firms or by facilities with respect to which the

operator is designated as a clean corporate citizen under part 14

of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA

451, MCL 324.1401 to 324.1429.