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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; exempts counties, cities, etc., with population greater than 3,500."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; exempts counties, cities, etc., with population greater than 3,500."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2198"
citation: "Virginia HB 2198 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Contracts", "Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Todd Gilbert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/627836fb-0e5d-4d0d-8335-a3c891667528"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2198"
source_hash: "5e16369e7b8da889c6e6c8b571563bbd430fb3e80c53c78c5113772d614b14de"
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 2198 (2019) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; exempts counties, cities, etc., with population greater than 3,500.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0427)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2198ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2198ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103075D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2198)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws — **184** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **960** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- C. Todd Gilbert — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103075D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Passed by for the day
- **2019-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 427 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/627836fb-0e5d-4d0d-8335-a3c891667528`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).