---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; powers of the Director."
description: "Requires, as a prerequisite for approval, that any out-of-state business applying with the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity for certification in Virginia as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business possess the equivalent certification in the business's state of origin. The bill exempts an out-of-state business located in a state that does not have a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business certification program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1192"
citation: "Virginia SB 1192 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46cdd361-af8b-47e8-b2d4-186202424171"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1192"
source_hash: "07aee8e24f19edfaed2d1542479928f80f1b3e77748d7b40e38f04b9846c68d3"
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 SB 1192 (2017) — Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; powers of the Director.

Requires, as a prerequisite for approval, that any out-of-state business applying with the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity for certification in Virginia as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business possess the equivalent certification in the business's state of origin. The bill exempts an out-of-state business located in a state that does not have a small, women-owned, or 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 (CHAP0573)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0573)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1192ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1192ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103059D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1192)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103059D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1192E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103059D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-07** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1192E
- **2017-02-07** Printed as engrossed 17103059D-E
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 573 (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/46cdd361-af8b-47e8-b2d4-186202424171`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).