Section 8284.

(a) (1) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt criteria for verifying and determining the eligibility of women and minority business enterprises for procurement contracts.

(2) The commission shall adopt the Department of General Services' disabled veteran business enterprise certification eligibility requirements for verifying and determining the eligibility of disabled veteran business enterprises for procurement contracts, and shall not deem eligible those disabled veteran business enterprises that are not certified by the Department of General Services.

(b) The commission shall develop, and require every electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with gross annual revenues exceeding twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates to implement, an outreach program to inform and recruit women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises to apply for procurement contracts under this article.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 475, Sec. 4.5. Effective January 1, 2011.)