PROCUREMENT-SMALL BUSINESS

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. In provisions concerning small business set-asides, provides that (i) no manufacturing business is a small business if it employs more than the number of persons set forth in the small business size standard for its specific industry, as established by the United States Small Business Administration (currently, 250 persons); and (ii) no construction business is a small business if its annual sales and receipts exceed the small business size standard for its specific industry, as established by the United States Small Business Administration (currently, $14,000,000). Effective immediately.