State contracts: participation goals: persons with developmental disabilities business enterprises.

Existing law establishes participation goals for various enterprises to participate in contracts with state departments awarded for construction, services, materials, supplies, equipment, alterations, repairs, or improvements. This bill would establish statewide participation goals of not less than 1% for persons with developmental disabilities business enterprises to participate in contracts awarded by a state agency for goods and services, and require, until June 30, 2014, that each state agency awarding contracts take specified actions to encourage that participation, as provided. This bill would impose specified civil penalties for the first and subsequent violations of providing false or fraudulent information with respect to the qualification of a persons with developmental disabilities business enterprise, and would prohibit the person or entity that made the false or fraudulent statement from bidding on or participating in state contracts for specified periods of time. Existing law generally regulates community rehabilitation programs operated for the primary purpose of providing directly or facilitating the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities. This bill would revise the definition of a community rehabilitation program for purposes of these regulations to mean a certified, vendored, or accredited program, as defined. Existing law authorizes any state agency, city or county, political subdivision, or district of the state to purchase materials and supplies manufactured and services provided by public or private nonprofit California corporations operating community rehabilitation programs serving persons with disabilities if these corporations meet specified requirements, including a requirement that contract work be performed by a workforce primarily comprised of persons with disabilities and a prohibition against directors of the corporation who are also employees of the corporation participating in or being present at discussions of the board of directors regarding labor-management contract negotiations. This bill would require the workforce to be employees of the nonprofit corporation and would delete the above-described prohibition. It would also require the Department of General Services to designate a nonprofit corporation to coordinate purchases of materials and supplies manufactured and services between a state agency, city or county, political subdivision, or district of the state and these public or private nonprofit California corporations.