Public contracts: bid preferences: employee health care expenditures.

Existing law imposes various requirements with respect to contracting by public entities. This bill would require a state agency awarding a public works contract to provide a 2% bid preference to a bidder whose employee health care expenditures, and those of its subcontractors, are at least 6.5% of the aggregate Social Security wages paid to its employees in California. This bill would require a bidder and its subcontractors to submit statements certifying that they qualify for the bid preference, would require the bidder and contractors to continue to make employee health care expenditures, as specified, and would impose civil penalties in connection therewith, as provided. This bill would become operative on January 1, 2011.