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Timestamp: 2020-06-04 20:09:16
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Powers of Director (§ 2.2-1606)—Virginia Decoded - Virginia Decoded
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§ 2.2-1606 Powers of Director
§ 2.2-1606
8. Adopt regulations to implement certification programs for small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations, which regulations shall be exempt from the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) pursuant to subdivision B 2 of § 2.2-4002. Such certification programs shall allow applications for certification to be submitted by electronic means as authorized by § 59.1-496 and the applicant to affix thereto his electronic signature, as defined in § 59.1-480. Such certification programs shall deny certification to vendors from states that deny like certifications to Virginia-based small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations or that provide a preference for small, women-owned, or minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations based in that state that is not available to Virginia-based businesses. The regulations shall (i) establish minimum requirements for certification of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses and employment services organizations; (ii) provide a process for evaluating existing local, state, private sector, and federal certification programs that meet the minimum requirements; and (iii) mandate certification, without any additional paperwork, of any prospective state vendor that has obtained certification under any certification program that is determined to meet the minimum requirements established in the regulations and of any employment services organization that has been approved by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services.
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HB1858: Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; certification of certain businesses. (passed)
SB1192: Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; powers of the Director. (passed)
§ 15.2-965.1 Participation of small, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses
§ 2.2-1617 One-stop small business permitting program
§ 2.2-4310 Discrimination prohibited; participation of small, women-owned, minority-owned, and service disabled veteran-owned business and employment services organization