republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2071.md

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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; job order contracting, limitations.	Changes the maximum allowable sum of all jobs performed in a one-year contract term for job order contracts by increasing such maximum from the current amount of $5 million to $6 million on July 1, 2019. The bill also provides an exception to allow job order contracting in the case of safety improvements or traffic calming measures for individual job orders up to $250,000, subject to the maximum annual threshold amount as established in the bill. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2071	Virginia HB 2071 (2019)	bill	Administration of Government Contracts	enacted	John J. Bell	6	20	7	2019-01-07	2019-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/75fccf25-711d-4bce-b201-079cf33b7cbe	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2071	17af12eafe621c652888a63bbc40f337537325f740b1a6a10f471eb7ef1ad3f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2071 (2019) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; job order contracting, limitations.

Changes the maximum allowable sum of all jobs performed in a one-year contract term for job order contracts by increasing such maximum from the current amount of $5 million to $6 million on July 1, 2019. The bill also provides an exception to allow job order contracting in the case of safety improvements or traffic calming measures for individual job orders up to $250,000, subject to the maximum annual threshold amount as established in the bill. 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 (CHAP0286) (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 (HB2071ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102584D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19102584D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with amendments — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 12–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102584D introduction
• 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2019-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-29 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-01-29 Engrossed by House as amended HB2071E
• 2019-01-29 Printed as engrossed 19102584D-E
• 2019-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-30 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-01-30 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-22 Enrolled
• 2019-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-22 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
• 2019-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 286 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75fccf25-711d-4bce-b201-079cf33b7cbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).