Virginia House Bill 685 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for contractors using automatic billing verification software. Requires that, for any bid on a contract (i) in excess of $500,000 and (ii) requiring work to be performed using a computer, all state agencies give preference to responsive and responsible bidders that agree to verify the hours worked on the associated contract and billed to the agency by using automatic billing verification software that meets certain standards. The bill provides that any data collected by such automatic billing verification pursuant to a contract with a state agency is considered accounting records belonging to the contractor; however, contractors are prohibited from selling or transferring such data or using it for any other purpose or manner other than to verify and manage the hours worked on the associated contract and billed to the agency. Work performed by a state employee or on a state-owned device and contracts with any law-enforcement agency or with any agency that is the custodian of criminal justice information, as defined in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division's Security Policy, are exempted from the provisions of this bill.

Va Public Procurement Act; preference for contractors using automatic billing verification software.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]

Del. Mark Cole [R]

Del. Hyland Fowler [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in General Laws
2020-01-17	House	Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement
2020-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2020-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103008D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	4328.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB685
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB685+hil