republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-432.md

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Bill	Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses.	Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 432	Virginia HB 432 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Carroll Foy	4	31	6	2020-01-03	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/aa782c86-28ee-40cf-851e-47dad136afab	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB432	1f4e3cb63d83e1c7c786a0fb4b1415d6536ed930494821123fee0c3329326fb2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 432 (2020) — Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses.

Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business. Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB432ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB432E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from SCC (HB432) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N) — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N) — 56–42 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer Carroll Foy — primary (person)
• Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103279D introduction
• 2020-01-03 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2020-01-11 Impact statement from SCC (HB432)
• 2020-01-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N)
• 2020-01-28 Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-01-31 Pending question ordered
• 2020-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
• 2020-01-31 Engrossment reconsidered by House
• 2020-01-31 Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to amendment-passage
• 2020-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
• 2020-01-31 Printed as engrossed 20103279D-E
• 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-03 VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N)
• 2020-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-04 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from SCC (HB432E)
• 2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-27 Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Impact statement from SCC (HB432ER)
• 2020-03-05 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-05 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa782c86-28ee-40cf-851e-47dad136afab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).