Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses. (HB432)
Introduced By
Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-Woodbridge) with support from co-patron Del. Hala Ayala (D-Woodbridge)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/03/2020 | Committee |
01/03/2020 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103279D |
01/03/2020 | Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce |
01/11/2020 | Impact statement from SCC (HB432) |
01/14/2020 | Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 |
01/23/2020 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N) |
01/28/2020 | Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N) (see vote tally) |
01/30/2020 | Read first time |
01/31/2020 | Read second time |
01/31/2020 | Committee amendment agreed to |
01/31/2020 | Pending question ordered |
01/31/2020 | Engrossed by House as amended HB432E |
01/31/2020 | Engrossment reconsidered by House |
01/31/2020 | Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to |
01/31/2020 | Printed as engrossed 20103279D-E |
02/03/2020 | Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N) |
02/03/2020 | VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N) (see vote tally) |
02/04/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/04/2020 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/06/2020 | Impact statement from SCC (HB432E) |
02/24/2020 | Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) (see vote tally) |
02/26/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/27/2020 | Read third time |
02/27/2020 | Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) (see vote tally) |
03/04/2020 | Enrolled |
03/04/2020 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB432ER) |
03/05/2020 | Impact statement from SCC (HB432ER) |
03/05/2020 | Signed by Speaker |
03/05/2020 | Signed by President |
03/12/2020 | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020 |
03/12/2020 | G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020 |
04/06/2020 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/20) |
04/06/2020 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
Comments
The legislators of Virginia should not discriminate against ANYONE ...including large well established businesses that offer the lowest bid. There should be a law requiring our state government to be fiscally prudent with our tax dollars and that ONLY the lowest bids be accepted for ALL state contracts. How much tax dollars would this save?
This is a terrible idea. Vendors routinely underbid, knowing that government will be trapped in that relationship and be forced to amend the contract to spend more, to avoid having to rebid the contract.