Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; redefines small business. (HB1134)

Introduced By

Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington) with support from co-patron Del. Nancy Guy (D-Virginia Beach)

Progress

✓	Introduced
✓	Passed Committee
✓	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purposes of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§ 2.2-4300 et seq.) to mean a business that together with its affiliates has both 250 or fewer employees and average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years. Currently for these programs, a business qualifies as a small business if, together with its affiliates, it has either 250 or fewer employees or average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years. Read the Bill »

Status

02/12/2020: In Committee

History

Date	Action
01/07/2020	Committee
01/07/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101639D
01/07/2020	Referred to Committee on General Laws
01/17/2020	Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement
02/04/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
02/06/2020	Impact statement from DPB (HB1134)
02/06/2020	Reported from General Laws (19-Y 2-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2020	Read first time
02/10/2020	Read second time and engrossed
02/11/2020	Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N 1-A)
02/11/2020	VOTE: Passage (72-Y 26-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/12/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed
02/12/2020	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology