School Law Bulletin #1999/05

THE 1998 GENERAL ASSEMBLY enacted laws affecting single- and separate-prime bidding for local school administrative unit building projects, increasing the purchasing flexibility of school units and community colleges, extending lease-purchase and installment purchase authority to community colleges, and simplifying the responsibility that schools must shoulder for vehicles impounded in drunk driving cases. This article summarizes those changes and their impact on school and college construction, purchasing, and sales procedures.