republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-558.md

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Bill	Micro-business; enhancement of participation in local procurement.	Enhancement of micro-business participation in local procurement. Allows any locality to enact an ordinance to enhance micro-business participation in local government procurement practices. Such measures may include special designation of local micro-businesses, providing technical support to micro-businesses, setting target goals for micro-business participation in the local procurement process, and other reasonable measures intended to promote micro-business participation in the locality. "Micro-business" is defined as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business with no more than 25 employees.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 558	Virginia HB 558 (2020)	bill		enacted	Joseph C. Lindsey	3	38	11	2020-01-06	2020-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/7bc653fc-e5da-4141-becb-f6713dcd2587	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB558	1929d0a4ac7329360bc25b69f39abd8d45c3de9daad4122132f253711dd7c93a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 558 (2020) — Micro-business; enhancement of participation in local procurement.

Enhancement of micro-business participation in local procurement. Allows any locality to enact an ordinance to enhance micro-business participation in local government procurement practices. Such measures may include special designation of local micro-businesses, providing technical support to micro-businesses, setting target goals for micro-business participation in the local procurement process, and other reasonable measures intended to promote micro-business participation in the locality. "Micro-business" is defined as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business with no more than 25 employees.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1123) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB558ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DHCD (HB558) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Agree To (92-Y 3-N) — 91–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0--N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: REJECTED (4-Y 92-N) — 4–91 (fail) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (32-Y 7-N) — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100477D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use referral-committee
• 2020-01-18 Impact statement from DHCD (HB558)
• 2020-01-31 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-07 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Local Government with amendment (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-19 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-02-19 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2020-02-19 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0--N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-21 Senate amendment rejected by House (4-Y 92-N)
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: REJECTED (4-Y 92-N)
• 2020-02-25 Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Senate requested conference committee
• 2020-02-26 House acceded to request
• 2020-02-27 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-02-28 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-03-04 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-04 Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 3-N)
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Agree To (92-Y 3-N)
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (32-Y 7-N)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1123 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7bc653fc-e5da-4141-becb-f6713dcd2587. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).