Each legislative session the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers tracks about 100 bills that affect, or potentially affect, the engineering profession. This year, ISPE is monitoring approximately 60 separate pieces of legislation.
Mandates licensure for fire sprinkler contractors.
O'Connor - Creates the Building and Construction Contract Act. Provides that a building and construction contract must require the prime contractor and all subcontractors to pay each subcontractor or material supplier within 10 business days after the prime contractor or subcontractor receives payment from the owner for undisputed amounts for service provided by a subcontractor or materials provided by a supplier. 3143 G. Hannig - Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that each invitation for sealed bids shall at a minimum include a statement of all significant factors and significant subfactors that the State agency reasonably expects to consider in evaluating sealed bids and the relative importance assigned to each of those factors and subfactors, and that the Sate agency shall include cost or price to the State as an evaluation factor that must be considered in the evaluation of proposals. Creates requirements for justification for use of noncompetitive procedures.