---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; request for proposals, publication."
description: "Removes the requirement for newspaper publication of Requests for Proposals for professional services. The bill also requires a local public body to post a Request for Proposal on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website when it elects not to publish such Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1629"
citation: "Virginia HB 1629 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Computer Services and Uses", "Contracts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hyland F. \"Buddy\" Fowler, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-10-26"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ebc90ad-7e48-4e00-843a-268e43e92673"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1629"
source_hash: "a059619e1bef7a6a53ece46825bb04e493b1c878108a63d35e34f5af1fa5ee8f"
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 1629 (2019) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; request for proposals, publication.

Removes the requirement for newspaper publication of Requests for Proposals for professional services. The bill also requires a local public body to post a Request for Proposal on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website when it elects not to publish such Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0274)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1629)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1629ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1629ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104416D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1629H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100873D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1629)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **92–3** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-26** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100873D `introduction`
- **2018-10-26** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-08** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 19104416D-H1
- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1629H1
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** 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
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 274 (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/7ebc90ad-7e48-4e00-843a-268e43e92673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).