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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment. Requires a state agency, whenever purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for public use, to ensure such PPE comply with all applicable federal and international certifications. The bill provides that if a state agency receives three or more bids (i) from a Virginia-based company or manufacturer or a manufacturer that uses materials or components made in Virginia or the United States or (ii) from a United States-based manufacturer that uses materials or components made in the United States, the agency may only select among those bids. The bill also provides that if a state agency is unable to purchase PPE from such company or manufacturer, it may purchase from another company or manufacturer, pending the results of independent laboratory testing of the PPE. The bill directs the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to establish a work group to make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding products other than PPE that may be necessary if a state of emergency is declared in Virginia and that state agencies should purchase with the same requirements and to report the recommendations of the work group to the Chairs of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology by September 1, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 416"
citation: "Virginia SB 416 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill DeSteph"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f68d6706-cb9e-4d4d-9e9e-95d5666e0b17"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB416"
source_hash: "ea579acd10061764559a23b12cf35e93b0274cae8d0b370a72628074467e2756"
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 SB 416 (2022) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment. Requires a state agency, whenever purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for public use, to ensure such PPE comply with all applicable federal and international certifications. The bill provides that if a state agency receives three or more bids (i) from a Virginia-based company or manufacturer or a manufacturer that uses materials or components made in Virginia or the United States or (ii) from a United States-based manufacturer that uses materials or components made in the United States, the agency may only select among those bids. The bill also provides that if a state agency is unable to purchase PPE from such company or manufacturer, it may purchase from another company or manufacturer, pending the results of independent laboratory testing of the PPE. The bill directs the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to establish a work group to make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding products other than PPE that may be necessary if a state of emergency is declared in Virginia and that state agencies should purchase with the same requirements and to report the recommendations of the work group to the Chairs of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology by September 1, 2022.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0802** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0802)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22107316D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB416H1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 22107385D-H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB416H2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100888D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB416)
5. **Printed as engrossed 22100888D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB416E)
6. **SB416ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB416ER)
## Votes
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **391** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (90-Y 6-N) — **896** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — **373** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (13-Y 2-N) — **132** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill DeSteph — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100888D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB416)
- **2022-01-26** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-02-11** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-11** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB416E
- **2022-02-11** Printed as engrossed 22100888D-E
- **2022-02-14** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB416E)
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Committee substitute printed 22107316D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-03-01** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-04** Committee substitute printed 22107385D-H2 `substitution`
- **2022-03-04** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Committee on General Laws substitute rejected 22107316D-H1
- **2022-03-09** Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 22107385D-H2
- **2022-03-09** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB416H2
- **2022-03-09** Passed House with substitute (90-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** VOTE: Passage (90-Y 6-N)
- **2022-03-09** Impact statement from DPB (SB416H2)
- **2022-03-10** House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
- **2022-03-10** Title replaced 22107385D-H1
- **2022-03-21** Enrolled
- **2022-03-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB416ER)
- **2022-03-21** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- **2022-04-27** Passed by for the day
- **2022-04-27** Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
- **2022-04-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
- **2022-05-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 802 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f68d6706-cb9e-4d4d-9e9e-95d5666e0b17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).