State-Funded Design and Engineering Services. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
	Official Title and Summary prepared by the Attorney General
Full Text of Proposed Law	STATE-FUNDED DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

• Prohibits contracting where performance of work by civil service employees is less costly unless urgent need for contract.

• Prohibits contracts which Controller or awarding agency determines are against public interest, health, safety or where quality of work would be lower than civil service work.

• Contractors must indemnify state in suits related to performance of contracts.

• Requires defined competitive bidding of state-funded design and engineering contracts over $50,000, unless delay from bidding would endanger public health or safety.

• Provisions severable and should be harmonized with similar measures on subject.
  

Summary of Legislative Analyst's
Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• Unknown impact on state and local government costs to obtain construction-related services. Impact would depend largely on factors included in the cost comparison analyses required by the proposition.

• Administrative costs to the State Controller--one-time costs of probably less than $500,000 and annual costs of up to $2 million.

Argument in Favor of Proposition 224

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Argument Against Proposition 224

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