Rail construction or design; exempts high-risk contracts from required review.
Summary
Procurement; rail. Exempts high-risk contracts for rail construction or design from required review by the Department of General Services prior to solicitation or award. The bill also raises the annual cap from $2 million to $5 million for contracts for on-call architectural and engineering services by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. The bill contains technical amendments.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Signed Mar 23, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
38
Key actions
14
Committee
16
Mar 23, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 431 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 26, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1099H1
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20106865D-H1
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (18-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2020
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 17, 2020
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Jan 7, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103781D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Betsy Carr
DDemocratic
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