---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses."
description: "Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 432"
citation: "Virginia HB 432 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Carroll Foy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa782c86-28ee-40cf-851e-47dad136afab"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB432"
source_hash: "1f4e3cb63d83e1c7c786a0fb4b1415d6536ed930494821123fee0c3329326fb2"
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 432 (2020) — Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses.

Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0744)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB432ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB432ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB432E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB432E)
4. **Impact statement from SCC (HB432)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB432)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N) — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N) — **17–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N) — **56–42** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103279D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-11** Impact statement from SCC (HB432)
- **2020-01-14** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-28** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-31** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-01-31** Pending question ordered
- **2020-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
- **2020-01-31** Engrossment reconsidered by House
- **2020-01-31** Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
- **2020-01-31** Printed as engrossed 20103279D-E
- **2020-02-03** Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-03** VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N)
- **2020-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-04** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Impact statement from SCC (HB432E)
- **2020-02-24** Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from SCC (HB432ER)
- **2020-03-05** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-05** 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
- **2020-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (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/aa782c86-28ee-40cf-851e-47dad136afab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).