Virginia House Bill 897

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-11-18 - Left in Rules
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; guidance to small businesses; identification of enforcement actions; work group; report. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to develop and provide guidance to businesses with newly approved permits and established businesses regarding responsibilities and requirements for maintaining such business that includes information identifying any regularly occurring required report to a state agency and any associated fees, penalties, or waivers. The bill requires each state agency to annually report any enforcement action taken by the agency against a small business in the previous calendar year that specifies each infraction and the enforcement action taken by the agency. The bill requires the Department to post de-identified aggregated data by state agency and infraction type from such reports on its website. The bill requires the Department to convene a work group to identify and recommend means to provide relief to small businesses regarding regularly occurring required reports to state agencies. The work group is required to identify each such report and consider (i) if such report can be required less frequently or eliminated; (ii) if the required information has not changed since the previous report, allowing the small business to satisfy the reporting requirement by indicating that there has been no change; (iii) establishing a waiver or lowering the threshold to qualify for an existing waiver; (iv) reducing or eliminating any penalty for noncompliance; and (v) any other means to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses. The Department is required to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by November 1, 2024.

Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; guidance to small businesses.

Del. Hillary Pugh Kent [R]

Del. Chad Green [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-11-18	House	Left in Rules
2024-02-01	House	Continued to 2025 with substitute in Rules (Voice Vote)
2024-02-01	House	Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24106392D-H1
2024-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 with substitute (Voice Vote)
2024-01-29	House	House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
2024-01-25	House	Assigned Rules sub: Studies Subcommittee
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Rules
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104751D

HB897 (Carry Over) 2024-02-01 - Continued to 2025 with substitute in Rules by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	1617	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB897
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB897/text/HB897
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB897/text/HB897H1