Virginia House Bill 449 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 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; preferences by localities, public institutions of higher education, and regional public bodies. Allows a locality to give a procurement preference for goods, services, and construction produced in the locality or by persons, firms, or corporations having principal places of business in the locality. The bill also allows public bodies that are public institutions of higher education or regional public bodies to give such a preference to goods, services, and construction produced in the localities in which the institution or regional public body is located. Currently such preference is allowed only in the case of a tie.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; preferences by localities, etc.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Del. David Toscano [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-14		House: Left in General Laws
2012-02-02		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2012-01-13		House: Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement
2012-01-10		House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
2012-01-10		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103400D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4328	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB449
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB449+hil