---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation of employment services organizations."
description: "Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and minority-owned business contracting and subcontracting goals of state agencies as well as state contractors. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2396"
citation: "Virginia HB 2396 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Contracts", "Professions and Occupations", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b7a2bf6-6d25-4ba2-876e-339704b52b5e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2396"
source_hash: "a488c960438920ea949859b7c5b39fe428b2db5962be64e0c1dad555a0823ffe"
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 2396 (2017) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation of employment services organizations.

Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and minority-owned business contracting and subcontracting goals of state agencies as well as state contractors. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0397)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2396ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2396ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104933D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2396H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103629D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2396)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 17103629D `introduction`
- **2017-01-18** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104933D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2396H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** 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 397 (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/5b7a2bf6-6d25-4ba2-876e-339704b52b5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).