VA HB 777
Status unknownVa. Public Procurement Act; procurement of goods transported by privately owned commercial vessels.
Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did VA HB 777 pass?
The current status of VA HB 777 is not known from the official record. Latest recorded action (2026-03-06): Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
What is VA HB 777 about?
Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of goods transported by privately owned commercial vessels; required contract provisions. Provides that any contract a state agency enters into for goods that exceeds $10,000 shall contain a provision that the contractor must comply with federal law relating to the transportation of goods on privately owned commercial vessels, defined in the bill.
Who sponsors VA HB 777?
C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. is the primary sponsor of VA HB 777.
Description
Virginia Public Procurement Act; procurement of goods transported by privately owned commercial vessels; required contract provisions. Provides that any contract a state agency enters into for goods that exceeds $10,000 shall contain a provision that the contractor must comply with federal law relating to the transportation of goods on privately owned commercial vessels, defined in the bill.
- Introduced
- 2026-01-13
- Latest action
- 2026-03-06 — Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Sponsors
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.primary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-03-06
Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
2026-02-18
Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage
2026-02-16
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee
2026-02-16
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
2026-02-13
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage,reading-3
2026-02-12
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution
2026-02-12
committee substitute agreed to
substitution
2026-02-12
Read second time
reading-2
2026-02-12
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB777)
2026-02-11
Read first time
reading-1
2026-02-09
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage
2026-02-09
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2026-02-05
Committee substitute printed 26107008D-H1
substitution
2026-02-05
Assigned HAPP sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
referral-committee
2026-02-05
Reported from General Laws with substitute and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage
2026-02-03
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (10-Y 0-N)
substitution
2026-02-03
House subcommittee offered
2026-01-26
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB777)
2026-01-26
Assigned HGL sub: Procurement/Open Government
referral-committee
2026-01-13
Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee
2026-01-13
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105133D
filing,introduction
Versions
Documents
Votes
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute
2026-02-03 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Adele Y. McClure: yes
- Betsy B. Carr: yes
- Marcus B. Simon: yes
- Karrie K. Delaney: yes
- Joshua G. Cole: yes
- Atoosa R. Reaser: yes
- Lily V. Franklin: yes
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.: yes
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
- Bill Wiley: yes
Reported from General Laws with substitute
2026-02-05 · pass · 21-0
Member-level votes (22)
- Paul E. Krizek: yes
- Holly M. Seibold: yes
- Betsy B. Carr: yes
- Luke E. Torian: yes
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price: yes
- Marcus B. Simon: yes
- Karrie K. Delaney: yes
- Joshua G. Cole: yes
- Adele Y. McClure: yes
- Phil M. Hernandez: yes
- Atoosa R. Reaser: yes
- Katrina Callsen: yes
- Elizabeth R. Guzman: yes
- Stacey Annie Carroll: yes
- Lily V. Franklin: yes
- Barry D. Knight: not voting
- James W. Morefield: yes
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.: yes
- Terry L. Austin: yes
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
- Bill Wiley: yes
- Ellen H. McLaughlin: yes
Subcommittee recommends reporting
2026-02-09 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.: yes
- Delores L. McQuinn: yes
- David A. Reid: yes
- Briana D. Sewell: yes
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price: yes
- James W. Morefield: yes
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
Reported from Appropriations
2026-02-09 · pass · 22-0
Member-level votes (22)
- Luke E. Torian: yes
- Betsy B. Carr: yes
- Delores L. McQuinn: yes
- Paul E. Krizek: yes
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.: yes
- David A. Reid: yes
- Rodney T. Willett: yes
- Briana D. Sewell: yes
- Alex Q. Askew: yes
- Charniele L. Herring: yes
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price: yes
- Kathy K.L. Tran: yes
- Shelly A. Simonds: yes
- Joshua E. Thomas: yes
- Amy J. Laufer: yes
- Terry L. Austin: yes
- James W. Morefield: yes
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
- M. Keith Hodges: yes
- Scott A. Wyatt: yes
- Bill Wiley: yes
- Ellen H. McLaughlin: yes
H VOTE:
2026-02-13 · pass · 96-0
Member-level votes (100)
- Jessica L. Anderson: yes
- Bonita G. Anthony: yes
- Alex Q. Askew: yes
- Terry L. Austin: yes
- Jason S. Ballard: yes
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker: yes
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
- Gretchen M. Bulova: yes
- Katrina Callsen: yes
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie: yes
- Betsy B. Carr: yes
- Stacey Annie Carroll: yes
- Mike A. Cherry: yes
- Nadarius E. Clark: not voting
- Laura Jane Cohen: yes
- Joshua G. Cole: yes
- Nicole Cole: yes
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler: not voting
- Mitchell Cornett: yes
- Rae Cousins: yes
- Will Davis: yes
- Karrie K. Delaney: yes
- Lindsey Dougherty: yes
- Mark C. Downey: yes
- Michael B. Feggans: yes
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.: yes
- Lily V. Franklin: yes
- Margaret A. Franklin: yes
- Debra D. Gardner: yes
- Thomas A. Garrett, Jr.: yes
- Jackie H. Glass: yes
- Timothy P. Griffin: yes
- Elizabeth R. Guzman: yes
- Karen Hamilton: yes
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.: yes
- Dan I. Helmer: yes
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr.: yes
- Phil M. Hernandez: yes
- Charniele L. Herring: yes
- M. Keith Hodges: yes
- Patrick A. Hope: yes
- Hillary Pugh Kent: yes
- Karen Keys-Gamarra: yes
- Terry G. Kilgore: yes
- Barry D. Knight: not voting
- Paul E. Krizek: yes
- Amy J. Laufer: yes
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich: yes
- Destiny LeVere Bolling: yes
- Alfonso H. Lopez: yes
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado: yes
- Marty Martinez: yes
- John Chilton McAuliff: yes
- Adele Y. McClure: yes
- Garrett McGuire: yes
- Ellen H. McLaughlin: yes
- Joseph P. McNamara: yes
- Delores L. McQuinn: yes
- Leslie Chambers Mehta: yes
- James W. Morefield: yes
- May Nivar: yes
- Delores Oates: yes
- Israel D. O'Quinn: yes
- Justin Pence: yes
- Eric Phillips: yes
- Kimberly Pope Adams: yes
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price: yes
- Sam Rasoul: yes
- Atoosa R. Reaser: yes
- David A. Reid: yes
- Chris S. Runion: yes
- Charlie Schmidt: yes
- Don Scott: yes
- Phillip A. Scott: yes
- Holly M. Seibold: not voting
- Briana D. Sewell: yes
- Irene Shin: yes
- Marcus B. Simon: yes
- Shelly A. Simonds: yes
- JJ Singh: yes
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.: yes
- Anne Ferrell Tata: yes
- Joshua E. Thomas: yes
- Virgil Thornton: yes
- Luke E. Torian: yes
- Kathy K.L. Tran: yes
- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr.: yes
- Wendell S. Walker: yes
- Jeion A. Ward: yes
- R. Lee Ware: yes
- Vivian E. Watts: yes
- Michael J. Webert: yes
- Madison Whittle: yes
- Bill Wiley: yes
- Rodney T. Willett: yes
- Wren M. Williams: yes
- Tony O. Wilt: yes
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr.: yes
- Scott A. Wyatt: yes
- Eric R. Zehr: yes
Reported from General Laws and Technology
2026-02-18 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Mamie E. Locke: yes
- Bryce E. Reeves: yes
- Jeremy S. McPike: yes
- Todd E. Pillion: yes
- Aaron R. Rouse: yes
- Christopher T. Head: yes
- Emily M. Jordan: yes
- Lashrecse D. Aird: yes
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg: yes
- Danica A. Roem: yes
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy: yes
- Timmy French: yes
- Christie New Craig: yes
- Angelia Williams Graves: yes
Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations
2026-03-06 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- L. Louise Lucas: yes
- R. Creigh Deeds: yes
- Mamie E. Locke: yes
- Ryan T. McDougle: yes
- Mark D. Obenshain: yes
- Richard H. Stuart: yes
- Bryce E. Reeves: not voting
- Barbara A. Favola: yes
- Scott A. Surovell: yes
- Jeremy S. McPike: yes
- Jennifer B. Boysko: yes
- Todd E. Pillion: yes
- Aaron R. Rouse: yes
- Lamont Bagby: yes
- Lashrecse D. Aird: not voting
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