Virginia Senate Bill 79 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-01-30 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for Virginia businesses. Provides 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 of the lowest bid of an out-of-state bidder, whichever is less. 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.

Public Procurement Act; bid match preference for State businesses.

Sen. John Watkins [R]

2012-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-30		Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
2012-01-24		Senate: Assigned GL&T sub: #2
2012-01-05		Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2012-01-05		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100789D

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+SB79
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB79+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+S12V0035+SB0079