republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-311.md

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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; submissions of bids or proposals on electronic procurement system.	Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide electronic procurement system, known as eVA, or other electronic means. Current law only encourages local public bodies to use eVA for such submissions. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 311	Virginia HB 311 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	36	7	2024-01-05	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/d1ae0b86-60cd-4db6-86c7-86cc24e128d6	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB311	f591ca1ac247403508b448d47078ca0378dd0992f63c0fa3cd0a576ec242d53d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 311 (2024) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; submissions of bids or proposals on electronic procurement system.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide electronic procurement system, known as eVA, or other electronic means. Current law only encourages local public bodies to use eVA for such submissions. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. 

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0438 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106403D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB311ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103579D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103579D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB311)
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-01 Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Committee substitute printed 24106403D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB311H1)
• 2024-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 24106403D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB311H1 substitution
• 2024-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-14 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-19 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB311ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB311ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 438 (effective 1/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1ae0b86-60cd-4db6-86c7-86cc24e128d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).