republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1712.md

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Bill	Energy performance-based contract; cooperative procurement.	Authorizes a public body, defined as a contracting entity, to purchase energy conservation or operational efficiency measures from an energy performance-based contract entered into by another contracting entity pursuant to the Energy and Operational Efficiency Performance-Based Contracting Act even if the entity did not participate in the request for proposals if the request for proposals specified that the procurement was being conducted on behalf of other contracting entities. The measure permits the use of cooperative procurement for energy conservation or operational efficiency measures in such instances. The bill provides, however, that energy conservation or operational efficiency measures shall not include roof replacement projects.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1712	Virginia HB 1712 (2017)	bill	Contracts Energy Conservation and Resources	enacted	J. Randall Minchew	4	18	8	2017-01-07	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/ed3425ab-6764-4d7b-a71b-da47ba06cbba	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1712	3f1ae645042f38f3ee12e9496071cf93d59628a5be73e33a4b2c3904d1a565bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1712 (2017) — Energy performance-based contract; cooperative procurement.

Authorizes a public body, defined as a contracting entity, to purchase energy conservation or operational efficiency measures from an energy performance-based contract entered into by another contracting entity pursuant to the Energy and Operational Efficiency Performance-Based Contracting Act even if the entity did not participate in the request for proposals if the request for proposals specified that the procurement was being conducted on behalf of other contracting entities. The measure permits the use of cooperative procurement for energy conservation or operational efficiency measures in such instances. The bill provides, however, that energy conservation or operational efficiency measures shall not include roof replacement projects.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0259) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1712ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101760D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17101760D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• J. Randall Minchew — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101760D introduction
• 2017-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-27 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-01-27 Engrossed by House as amended HB1712E
• 2017-01-27 Printed as engrossed 17101760D-E
• 2017-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 259 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed3425ab-6764-4d7b-a71b-da47ba06cbba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).