HB432
Public utilities; contracting with small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Public utilities; use of small, women-owned, or minority-owned business.
Provides that in any proceeding in which the State Corporation Commission is required to determine whether costs incurred by a public utility in its delivery or provision of any goods or service are reasonable or prudent, the incremental portion of the costs incurred as a result of its contracting with ... (More) a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business to deliver or provide the goods or service will not be found to be unreasonable or imprudently incurred if the costs of contracting with the small, women-owned, or minority-owned business do not exceed, by more than three percent, the costs that would have been incurred had it used the lowest-cost qualified business. The measure applies to businesses that are certified as small, women-owned, or minority-owned by the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/03/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103279D
- 01/03/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/11/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB432)
- 01/14/2020 - House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/23/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 1-N)
- 01/28/2020 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (17-Y 5-N)
- 01/30/2020 - House: Read first time
- 01/31/2020 - House: Read second time
- 01/31/2020 - House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/31/2020 - House: Pending question ordered
- 01/31/2020 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
- 01/31/2020 - House: Engrossment reconsidered by House
- 01/31/2020 - House: Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to
- 01/31/2020 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB432E
- 01/31/2020 - House: Printed as engrossed 20103279D-E
- 02/03/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N)
- 02/03/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/04/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/06/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB432E)
- 02/24/2020 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/26/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/2020 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) Close Floor Vote
- 03/04/2020 - House: Enrolled
- 03/04/2020 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB432ER)
- 03/05/2020 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB432ER)
- 03/05/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/05/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/2020 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/06/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/06/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744)