* Prohibits contracting where performance of work by civil service employees is less costly unless urgent need for contract. * Prohibits contracts which Controller or awarding agency determines are against public interest, health, safety or where quality of work would be lower than civil service work. * Contractors must indemnify state in suits related to performance of contracts. * Requires defined competitive bidding of state-funded design and engineering contracts over $50,000, unless delay from bidding would endanger public health or safety. * Provisions severable and should be harmonized with similar measures on subject.
Source for Popular Vote data: California Secretary of State. Statement of Vote 1998 Primary Election June 2, 1998, California Secretary of State (http://primary98.ss.ca.gov/Final/P98_SOV.pdf) (accessed 25 Feb 2007)