The report must describe the highway construction training and skill improvement program conducted by the commissioner, analyze results, and disclose amount of available federal funds as well as the amount spent by the commissioner.

Section 2 requires the commissioner to include in contracts involving federal funds, a penalty for contractors who do not meet project disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) goals or show good faith effort to comply, and to report by February 1 of each odd-numbered year to the legislative transportation committees concerning compliance.

The report must:

• State the department's annual aspirational goal and percentage attained;
• Explain methodology and public participation used to establish the aspirational goal, and describe good faith efforts to meet the goal;
• Describe actions to address overconcentration of DBEs in certain types of work;
• State the number of contracts with DBE goals and the number of contractors who met DBE goals or were penalized for failure to meet the goals, and
• Describe contracts with no DBE goals and the number and amount of contracts with targeted groups under state law.

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