republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-454.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programs for recycled goods, climate positive materials."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programsfor recycled goods; climate positive materials. Requires theDepartment of General Services to promote the Commonwealth's interestin materials and products certified as climate positive and developprocedures to procure materials and products certified as climatepositive by a third party approved by the Director of the Departmentwith regard to the procurement guidelines established by the Department.The term \"climate positive\" is defined as having a net negative carbonfootprint."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 454"
citation: "Virginia HB 454 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott Wyatt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73e3c372-3827-4e37-9ff9-ad2299cf2fc1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB454"
source_hash: "f711a9d05761a29eb356875735e38b48d5b2f2dc0b3f6662893201597f08c05e"
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 HB 454 (2020) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programs for recycled goods, climate positive materials.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase programsfor recycled goods; climate positive materials. Requires theDepartment of General Services to promote the Commonwealth's interestin materials and products certified as climate positive and developprocedures to procure materials and products certified as climatepositive by a third party approved by the Director of the Departmentwith regard to the procurement guidelines established by the Department.The term "climate positive" is defined as having a net negative carbonfootprint.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0359)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB454ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB454ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB454)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB454)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB454H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB454H1)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws with substitute (18-Y 3-N) — **18–3** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (87-Y 10-N) — **86–10** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Scott Wyatt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103673D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB454)
- **2020-02-04** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-04** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-04** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-02-06** Reported from General Laws with substitute (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Committee substitute printed 20106794D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-06** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-07** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB454H1)
- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 20106794D-H1
- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB454H1
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House (87-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Passage (87-Y 10-N)
- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB454ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 359 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73e3c372-3827-4e37-9ff9-ad2299cf2fc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).