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Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology
Subcommittee #2

Stuart (Chairman), Herring, Petersen, Vogel, Reeves

Clerk: Michael Adams, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Amigo Wade
Date of Meeting: February 14, 2013
Time and Place: Thursday, 9:00am, Senate Room A - GAB

H.B. 1363 Private security services businesses; exempts certain employees and representatives from training.

Patron: Fariss

Private security services businesses; exemption. Exempts employees and sales representatives of an electronic security equipment retailer where they (i) sell the equipment at a store location, online, or by telephone, but not at the end user's premises; (ii) are not electronic security technicians; and (iii) do not have access to end user confidential information regarding the end user's electronic security equipment.

H.B. 1823 Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities.

Patron: Villanueva

Public procurement; posting by local public bodies of procurement opportunities. Requires local public bodies to post required certain procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website and makes newspaper publication or posting on other appropriate websites optional. Currently, only state public bodies are required to post procurement notices on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website. The bill provides, however, that no local public body shall be required to post on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website for reverse auctioning for goods and nonprofessional services if (i) the amount of such contract is expected to exceed $100,000 and (ii) the local public body has a website for the posting of such notices and provides the website address to the Department of General Services for posting on its central electronic procurement website. The bill also requires the Department of General Services to (a) provide an electronic data file of the using agency's business opportunities at no charge to any requesting newspaper or other print publication with circulation in Virginia using the comma-separated values (CSV) format and (b) send the data file automatically via electronic mail on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis as agreed to by the parties. The bill specifies the information to be included in the data file.

H.B. 1890 General Services, Department of; public access to standard vendor accounting information.

Patron: LeMunyon

Department of General Services; standard vendor accounting information. Requires the Division of Purchases and Supply of the Department of General Services and the State Comptroller to adhere to the adopted data standards and match all purchases of goods, commodities, and other services to the related payment activity and make the matched information available on the Commonwealth Data Point pursuant to subdivision H 3 a of § 30-133. The bill requires that this information be available at a transactional level and be in sufficient detail to make clear what an agency has purchased, when the purchase was made, the vendor from whom the purchase is made, the amount purchased, if applicable, and how much was paid. The bill further requires that by July 15, 2013, the Governor must direct the Division and State Comptroller to take the steps necessary to modify their systems to accomplish the requirements of the bill.

H.B. 1994 Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract pricing arrangements.

Patron: Massie

Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract pricing arrangements. Provides that the award of a public contract may be made on the basis of cost plus a percentage of the private investment made by a private entity in cases of the procurement of commercial or financial consulting services related to a qualifying transportation facility under the Public-Private Transportation Act or a qualifying project under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act, where the commercial or financial consulting services are sought to solicit or to solicit and evaluate proposals for the qualifying transportation facility or the qualifying project. The bill defines "private entity," "qualifying transportation facility," and "qualifying project."

H.B. 2079 VA Public Procurement Act; process for competitive sealed bidding and negotiation.

Patron: Jones

Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Reorganizes the definitions of competitive sealed bidding and competitive negotiation. The bill also adds a definition of job order contracting.

H.B. 2128 Virginia Public Procurement Act; small procurements.

Patron: Byron

Virginia Public Procurement Act; small procurements; localities. Provides that local public bodies are not required to post on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website for small purchase procurements.

H.B. 2302 Electronic security sales representatives; shall possess valid registration issued by DCJS.

Patron: Cosgrove

Department of Criminal Justice Services; electronic security sales representatives. Provides that an electronic security sales representative shall possess a valid registration issued by the Department before selling or offering for sale any electronic security equipment in the Commonwealth.