Bill Text: VA SB980 | 2023 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Disadvantaged Business Enterprises; work group to evaluate how DOT determines usage on projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-03 - Passed by indefinitely in Rules (17-Y 0-N) [SB980 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2023-SB980-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 980 Offered January 11, 2023 Prefiled January 6, 2023 A BILL to direct the Secretary of Transportation to convene a work group on the determination of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise usage by the Department of Transportation on specific projects; report. ---------- Patron-- Marsden ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Secretary of Transportation shall convene a work group to review the laws, regulations, and policies regarding how the Department of Transportation (the Department) determines usage of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) on specific transportation projects with the goal of increasing participation statewide in transportation contracts by small business owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. The members of the work group shall include the Commissioner of Highways, the Department's Division Administrator for Civil Rights, and the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity as well as representatives from the Transportation DBE Advisory Committee, the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, the Old Dominion Highway Contractors Association, and other relevant industry stakeholders. The work group shall report its findings and any recommended legislative, regulatory, or policy changes to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on Transportation by September 1, 2023.