---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; discrimination prohibited, military family owned businesses."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; discrimination prohibited; military family-owned businesses. Prohibits any public body from discriminating against a bidder or offeror in the solicitation or awarding of contracts on the basis of status as a military family, defined in the bill. The bill provides that all public bodies shall establish programs to facilitate the participation of military family-owned businesses, as defined in the bill, in procurement transactions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2751"
citation: "Virginia HB 2751 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael B. Feggans"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d71a691f-72b9-4576-852f-ac0388008465"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2751"
source_hash: "364d413c2d53ab6d45055bc6d59f7b6963f6272d92fcc2b167efbf620e107662"
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 2751 (2025) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; discrimination prohibited, military family owned businesses.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; discrimination prohibited; military family-owned businesses. Prohibits any public body from discriminating against a bidder or offeror in the solicitation or awarding of contracts on the basis of status as a military family, defined in the bill. The bill provides that all public bodies shall establish programs to facilitate the participation of military family-owned businesses, as defined in the bill, in procurement transactions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1022534.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074312.PDF)
3. **General Laws Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032181.PDF)
4. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036404.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057107.PDF)

## Votes

- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael B. Feggans — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 25105321D `introduction`
- **2025-01-17** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2751)
- **2025-01-27** Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-29** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2751)
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106229D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** General Laws Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2751ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2751)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d71a691f-72b9-4576-852f-ac0388008465`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).