republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-242.md

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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation, exceptions to contractual terms.	Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liability provisions contained in a Request for Proposal for information technology. The bill also requires an offeror to state any exception to any contractual terms or conditions in writing at the time of responding to such Request for Proposal, if so requested by the public body, which exception shall be considered during negotiations, but prohibits the public body from basing the scoring or evaluation on such exceptions when selecting offerors for negotiations. Current law only prohibits a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to the liability provisions of the Request for Proposal. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Public Body Procurement Work Group. This bill is identical to SB 242.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 242	Virginia HB 242 (2024)	bill		enacted	David L. Bulova	4	33	7	2024-01-04	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e8ea0065-211d-4c1e-aa88-708c79d816e7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB242	f808189799dd6db39201c1262a10fc5ef84db49a5bb2d7ba07a6bb2269b7a60f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 242 (2024) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation, exceptions to contractual terms.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; exceptions to contractual terms and conditions of the Request for Proposal. Removes the prohibition on a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to any liability provisions contained in a Request for Proposal for information technology. The bill also requires an offeror to state any exception to any contractual terms or conditions in writing at the time of responding to such Request for Proposal, if so requested by the public body, which exception shall be considered during negotiations, but prohibits the public body from basing the scoring or evaluation on such exceptions when selecting offerors for negotiations. Current law only prohibits a public body from requiring an offeror to state in a proposal any exception to the liability provisions of the Request for Proposal. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Public Body Procurement Work Group. This bill is identical to SB 242.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0688 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB242ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103180D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24103180D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David L. Bulova — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103180D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned GL sub: Procurement referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-16 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-16 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-18 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-23 Engrossed by House as amended HB242E
• 2024-01-23 Printed as engrossed 24103180D-E
• 2024-01-24 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB242E)
• 2024-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-25 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-14 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB242ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB242ER)
• 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8ea0065-211d-4c1e-aa88-708c79d816e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).