(a) The department may make all rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose of carrying into effect this chapter. Rules and regulations shall be adopted, amended, or repealed in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1.

(b) The department shall consider appropriate remedial actions to be taken in regards to mandatory reporting agencies that failed in three out of five years to meet their small business or disabled veteran business enterprise goals, including, but not limited to, the removal of the department’s delegated contract authority or the placement of additional restrictions on contracting activity. The department shall set forth its actions related to this subdivision within the department’s consolidated annual report.

Terms Used In California Government Code 14843

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the Department of General Services. See California Government Code 14837
  • Disabled veteran business enterprise: means an enterprise that has been certified as meeting the qualifications established by paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of §. See California Government Code 14837
  • Small business: means an independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation, the principal office of which is located in California, the officers of which are domiciled in California, and which, together with affiliates, has 100 or fewer employees, and average annual gross receipts of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) or less over the previous three years, or is a manufacturer, as defined in subdivision (c), with 100 or fewer employees. See California Government Code 14837
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 730, Sec. 9. (AB 2019) Effective January 1, 2023.)