---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Services, Department of; disposition of surplus materials."
description: "Requires the Department of General Services to permit surplus materials to be sold, prior to public sale or auction, to (i) service disabled veteran-owned businesses and (ii) veterans service organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2161"
citation: "Virginia HB 2161 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Carroll Foy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3cf4a3e-945e-49e2-978c-32a742f444e9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2161"
source_hash: "d8d24732898dfcbbaa048b7854c6831cdee796d7b73f947cab170ab466da589f"
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 2161 (2019) — General Services, Department of; disposition of surplus materials.

Requires the Department of General Services to permit surplus materials to be sold, prior to public sale or auction, to (i) service disabled veteran-owned businesses and (ii) veterans service organizations.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0425)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2161)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2161ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2161ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105080D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2161H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103671D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2161)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103671D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 19105080D-H1
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2161H1
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 425 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3cf4a3e-945e-49e2-978c-32a742f444e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).