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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; certification of certain businesses."
+description: "Authorizes the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulations that mandate certification without any additional paperwork of any small, women-owned, or minority-owned business that has obtained certification under any federal small, women-owned, and minority-owned business certification program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1858"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1858 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Trade and Commerce"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alfonso H. Lopez"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2c18417-b0d7-4dff-947b-47cf26062cd7"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1858"
+source_hash: "9fc0428e44b408ed7ee181d0732f2f7fe4036f9051c09c39a9a946634552823a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1858 (2017) — Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; certification of certain businesses.
+
+Authorizes the Director of the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulations that mandate certification without any additional paperwork of any small, women-owned, or minority-owned business that has obtained certification under any federal small, women-owned, and minority-owned business certification program.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0380)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1858ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1858ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103791D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1858)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103791D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1858E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **94–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **21–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
+- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
+- James M. LeMunyon — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103791D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-27** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2017-01-27** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-01-30** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended HB1858E
+- **2017-01-31** Printed as engrossed 17103791D-E
+- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 380 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2c18417-b0d7-4dff-947b-47cf26062cd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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