Virginia House Bill 1015 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-14 - House: Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides, for contracts not expected to exceed $5 million, a bid match preference for Virginia business. Under the bill, a Virginia business has an opportunity to match the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder if the bid of a Virginia business is within five percent or $10,000, whichever is less, of the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder. The bill also provides that to be deemed a resident of Virginia, a Virginia person, firm, or corporation must have paid unemployment taxes or income taxes in Virginia in addition to being organized pursuant to Virginia law or maintaining a principal place of business within Virginia. The bill has a three-year sunset provision.

Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for State businesses.

Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Barbara Comstock [R]	Del. John Cox [R]
Del. Anne Crockett-Stark [R]	Sen. Chris Head [R]	Del. Gordon Helsel [R]	Del. Keith Hodges [R]
Del. Donald Merricks [R]	Del. Rick Morris [R]	Del. John O'Bannon [R]	Del. Charles Poindexter [R]
Del. Margaret Ransone [R]	Del. Larry Rush [R]	Del. Thomas Rust [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-14		House: Left in General Laws
2012-02-02		House: Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB334-Villanueva) by voice vote
2012-01-27		House: Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement
2012-01-11		House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
2012-01-11		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103929D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4324	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB1015
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1015+hil