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The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will come to order. Today we are looking at effect on children and infants. We have a vote i believe at 11 30 today so we should i believe give us time to have a full discussion with our witnesses. Before we turn to todays focus i wanted to say that later today senator murray and i and senators young will introduce legislation to help address the Opioid Crisis. Dr. Collins, head of the National Institute of health predicted that nonaddictive pain killer can be introduced. Our bill would give more flexibility to conduct research. The Committ...

Recommended for sbe policy is inclusion of what a joint venture is, a definition of what is association is, how eligibility for sbe credits are counted and what the aensh will expect in terms of a association and joint voferner agreement. First what is proposed for joint vercher is what is stated on the slide. There is nothing particularly different in termoffs joint venture as one would understand in the contracting world. It is just a separation we stipulated it must meet the minimum threshold assigned by us in terms of what the agreement should contain and subject to our approval. The defin...

Clarifying language to provide a framework for people to work off of. In terms of agreement requirements, we have specific defined provisions we want to see within the agreements and those are specified here and ill read that off briefly. It is the fined management between the parties and these are 2 parties. The non sbe prime and the sbe partner. Define the technical managerial responsibility. Define the scope of work. Percentage break down of the kope scope orwork. Identify subcontractors or conceltabout that perform the work. This is important, we want to make sure the Small Business partne...

The agreement must be provided to us for approval. One thing thata couple things we are looking at for the future is looking at potential safe harbor language within these agrume grument and language that is put into had contract. We are seeking to come back to you in 6 months to give a status of how this is implemented over a 6 month period. The second think we are looking at is additional incentives for sbes that i guess in theory graduated from the sbe program. What i mean by that is because the city has a sbalbe category that exceeds the ocii standards recommended here, in theory they were...