---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; right to appeal denial of initial certification."
description: "Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses;right to appeal denial of initial certification. Requires theDepartment of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulationsto establish a process for businesses that are denied initial certificationas a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to appeal suchdenial on the basis that the Department made a mistake in denyingthe business's application for certification. This bill is a recommendationof the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2172"
citation: "Virginia HB 2172 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candi Mundon King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28f73b6e-af92-4fec-a774-4ac2957f1a03"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2172"
source_hash: "5b0803d8cf06c1cd1dc7846319697de495619788dda51ed0f0ed5504500b228d"
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 2172 (2021) — Small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses; right to appeal denial of initial certification.

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses;right to appeal denial of initial certification. Requires theDepartment of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to adopt regulationsto establish a process for businesses that are denied initial certificationas a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to appeal suchdenial on the basis that the Department made a mistake in denyingthe business's application for certification. This bill is a recommendationof the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0149** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0149)
2. **HB2172ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2172ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101615D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2172)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 0-N 1-A) — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Candi Mundon King — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101615D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB2172)
- **2021-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-25** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Reported from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB2172ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28f73b6e-af92-4fec-a774-4ac2957f1a03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).