---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rail construction or design; exempts high-risk contracts from required review."
description: "Procurement; rail. Exempts high-risk contracts for rail construction or design from required review by the Department of General Services prior to solicitation or award. The bill also raises the annual cap from $2 million to $5 million for contracts for on-call architectural and engineering services by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. The bill contains technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1099"
citation: "Virginia HB 1099 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9001b403-d1f6-4ab9-afca-ae7c758da0cc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1099"
source_hash: "383d67f738405d2a8edfa298b5c55584fd01cf9ad63fd29d37ba83c67f48048b"
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 1099 (2020) — Rail construction or design; exempts high-risk contracts from required review.

Procurement; rail. Exempts high-risk contracts for rail construction or design from required review by the Department of General Services prior to solicitation or award. The bill also raises the annual cap from $2 million to $5 million for contracts for on-call architectural and engineering services by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. The bill contains technical amendments.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0431)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1099ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1099ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1099H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1099H1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1099)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1099)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103781D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1099)
- **2020-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-28** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-01-30** Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Committee substitute printed 20106865D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-30** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 20106865D-H1
- **2020-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1099H1
- **2020-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB1099H1)
- **2020-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB1099ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 431 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9001b403-d1f6-4ab9-afca-ae7c758da0cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).