(1) On January 1, 2014, and on each January 1 thereafter, a governmental body shall submit an annual report to the general assembly if the governmental body entered into one or more contracts with a vendor during the previous state fiscal year and received written notice from one or more vendors pursuant to section 24-102-206 (1)(b) that the vendor or the vendor's subcontractor would perform services under the contract outside the United States or the state.
(2) (a) The purpose of the report required in subsection (1) of this section is to notify taxpayers and the general assembly regarding the use of United States and state tax dollars on state contracts in which services under the contract are performed outside the United States or the state. The governmental body shall provide information required in the report based on the information that vendors submitted to the governmental body pursuant to section 24-102-206 during the previous state fiscal year.
The report must separate data by state contract type and provide information regarding the type and the percentage of the total services that were performed outside the United States or the state by each vendor or a vendor's subcontractor under each state contract.
The report required by subsection (1) of this section must also include a descriptionof any initiatives that the governmental body has taken to actively reduce the number of contracts in which a vendor or vendor's subcontractor perform services under the contract outside the United States or the state.
A governmental body that is required to submit a report pursuant to subsection (1) ofthis section may include the report in its annual report to the general assembly required by the "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act".
Source: L. 2013: Entire section added, (HB 13-1292), ch. 266, p. 1404, § 13, effective May 24.
Cross references: In 2013, this section was added by the "Keep Jobs in Colorado Act of 2013". For the short title, see section 1 of chapter 266, Session Laws of Colorado 2013.