republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2396.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation of employment services organizations.	Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and minority-owned business contracting and subcontracting goals of state agencies as well as state contractors. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2396	Virginia HB 2396 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Contracts Professions and Occupations Trade and Commerce	enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	17	8	2017-01-18	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5b7a2bf6-6d25-4ba2-876e-339704b52b5e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2396	a488c960438920ea949859b7c5b39fe428b2db5962be64e0c1dad555a0823ffe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2396 (2017) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; participation of employment services organizations.

Provides that contracts and subcontracts awarded to employment services organizations shall be credited toward the small business, women-owned, and minority-owned business contracting and subcontracting goals of state agencies as well as state contractors. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2396ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104933D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Presented and ordered printed 17103629D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 17103629D introduction
• 2017-01-18 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17104933D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2396H1
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 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
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 397 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b7a2bf6-6d25-4ba2-876e-339704b52b5e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).