republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1668.md

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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; high-risk contracts, report.	Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), and the Office of the Attorney General, as appropriate, to review contract solicitations and contracts for any public contract with a state public body for goods, services, insurance, or construction that meets the definition of high-risk contract provided in the bill. The bill directs DGS and VITA to develop guidelines for state agencies to use when assigning staff to administer high-risk contracts and requires that such guidelines (i) provide that any staff designated as a contract administrator must have prior contract administration experience and (ii) direct an agency's chief procurement officer to communicate to such contract administrator, when he first assumes his role, his responsibilities for effectively administering the contract. Some provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date for implementation for certain high-risk contract review processes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1668	Virginia HB 1668 (2019)	bill	Administration of Government Contracts Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Betsy B. Carr	8	29	10	2018-12-03	2019-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/ad20d850-7c9d-49db-bb02-2a7b4b4c19f9	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1668	8ec8dcbf867b359cd6312ac57b98043df1806f485c5add608a4b69c76e12aae6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1668 (2019) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; high-risk contracts, report.

Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), and the Office of the Attorney General, as appropriate, to review contract solicitations and contracts for any public contract with a state public body for goods, services, insurance, or construction that meets the definition of high-risk contract provided in the bill. The bill directs DGS and VITA to develop guidelines for state agencies to use when assigning staff to administer high-risk contracts and requires that such guidelines (i) provide that any staff designated as a contract administrator must have prior contract administration experience and (ii) direct an agency's chief procurement officer to communicate to such contract administrator, when he first assumes his role, his responsibilities for effectively administering the contract. Some provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date for implementation for certain high-risk contract review processes.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0601) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1668ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Committee substitute printed 19106105D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100629D (committee substitute) — source
7. House: Printed as engrossed 19106105D-EH1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with amendments — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendments agreed to by House — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
• Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
• S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100629D introduction
• 2018-12-03 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2019-01-08 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2019-01-10 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2019-01-17 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee amendments from General Laws rejected
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute from Appropriations agreed to 19106105D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Amendment by Delegate Carr agreed to amendment-passage
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1668EH1
• 2019-02-04 Printed as engrossed 19106105D-EH1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2019-02-13 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Reading of amendments waived
• 2019-02-20 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2019-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-21 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-23 Enrolled
• 2019-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-23 Signed by President
• 2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 601 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad20d850-7c9d-49db-bb02-2a7b4b4c19f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).