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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; designation of trade secrets and proprietary information."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; designation of trade secrets and proprietary information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 905"
citation: "Virginia HB 905 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Contracts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/667018ff-ff0f-49c7-91b4-b1bac446bb6f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB905"
source_hash: "1ff530e47347589277ce0baa7fd1409fbcb7b76e7462dd0910f8c0562f46c6dd"
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 905 (2018) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; designation of trade secrets and proprietary information.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0031)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB905ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB905ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100197D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB905)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100197D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** Passed by for the day
- **2018-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 31 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/667018ff-ff0f-49c7-91b4-b1bac446bb6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).