Virginia Public Procurement Act; high-risk contracts, report.
Summary
Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), and the Office of the Attorney General, as appropriate, to review contract solicitations and contracts for any public contract with a state public body for goods, services, insurance, or construction that meets the definition of high-risk contract provided in the bill. The bill directs DGS and VITA to develop guidelines for state agencies to use when assigning staff to administer high-risk contracts and requires that such guidelines (i) provide that any staff designated as a contract administrator must have prior contract administration experience and (ii) direct an agency's chief procurement officer to communicate to such contract administrator, when he first assumes his role, his responsibilities for effectively administering the contract. Some provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date for implementation for certain high-risk contract review processes.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2018
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Dec 3, 2018
Signed Mar 19, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2019 · House of Delegates Jan 17, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 19, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
9
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Mar 19, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 601 (effective - see bill)
executive
Feb 21, 2019
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 20, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 20, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 20, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 19, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 13, 2019
Committee
Rereferred to Finance
upper
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1668EH1
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Amendment by Delegate Carr agreed to
lower
Feb 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute from Appropriations agreed to 19106105D-H1
lower
Jan 18, 2019
Committee
Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay
lower
Jan 17, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 17, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (20-0)
house of delegates
Jan 10, 2019
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
lower
Dec 3, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Dec 3, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100629D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Betsy Carr
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher K. Peace
RRepublican
Co
S. Chris Jones
RRepublican
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