republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2324.md

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Bill	Major information technology project procurement; terms and conditions, etc.	Requires, in any contract for a major information technology project, terms and conditions relating to the indemnification obligations and liability of a supplier to be reasonable and to not exceed in aggregate twice the value of the contract. The bill also provides that there is no limitation on the liability of a supplier for (i) any intentional or willful misconduct, fraud, or recklessness of a supplier or any employee of a supplier or (ii) claims for bodily injury, including death, and damage to real property or tangible personal property resulting from the negligence of a supplier or any employee of a supplier. The bill provides an exception to such conditions where the Secretary of Administration approves a reasonable maximum alternative limitation of liability amount recommended by the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth based on a risk assessment showing exceptional risk to the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2324	Virginia HB 2324 (2019)	bill	Administration of Government	enacted	Christopher K. Peace	5	20	8	2019-01-08	2019-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/332c6f75-0f9c-428f-853b-23dfbc97790c	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2324	455ad5f7b550d1b54c3c68f7cff10bfaa7b9478cabca735da8ced99420d483e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2324 (2019) — Major information technology project procurement; terms and conditions, etc.

Requires, in any contract for a major information technology project, terms and conditions relating to the indemnification obligations and liability of a supplier to be reasonable and to not exceed in aggregate twice the value of the contract. The bill also provides that there is no limitation on the liability of a supplier for (i) any intentional or willful misconduct, fraud, or recklessness of a supplier or any employee of a supplier or (ii) claims for bodily injury, including death, and damage to real property or tangible personal property resulting from the negligence of a supplier or any employee of a supplier. The bill provides an exception to such conditions where the Secretary of Administration approves a reasonable maximum alternative limitation of liability amount recommended by the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth based on a risk assessment showing exceptional risk to the Commonwealth. 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 (CHAP0605) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2324ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19105482D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102823D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 34–4 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102823D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2019-01-16 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 substitute agreed to 19105482D-H1
• 2019-01-29 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2324H1
• 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
• 2019-02-11 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Enrolled
• 2019-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
• 2019-02-27 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 605 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/332c6f75-0f9c-428f-853b-23dfbc97790c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).