The Procurement-Open Government Subcommittee advanced several contested bills on apprenticeship mandates, wage theft, and government data privacy while tabling an out-of-state FOIA access bill for further study and continuing multiple procurement and open-meetings bills to 2027.
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Brandon Robinson (Associated General Contractors of Virginia) argued the bill does nothing to help with the supply of apprentices and would disenfranchise workers in construction trades that do not have apprenticeship programs. Delegate Krezik responded that the bill includes an easy exemption if there are not enough apprentices and characterized the bill as about as flexible as you can possibly get while still promoting apprenticeships.
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“We're all aware of how DOGE was hoovering up data from federal agencies. From information about our tax returns from the IRS to sensitive data from the Social Security Administration to information about loan recipients from the Department of Education. The federal government has also demanded states turn over sensitive personal information about our residents, for example, demanding participant data from the tanf, snap, Medicaid and unemployment insurance programs, as well as voter rolls. Once data is released, you can't unrelease it, right? Like you can't unring that bell.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe meeting of the Subcommittee on Procurement and Open Government of the House General Laws Committee will now come to order. Members will indicate their presence by pressing green on the electronic voting system. All right, thank you, members. A quorum is present. All right, so we have an extensive docket to cover today. After each patron has presented their bill, I will take questions and comments from the subcommittee and then open it up for public testimony before then taking it back to the subcommittee. Since we have a long docket today, each member of the public will get one minute to speak for or against, unless providing technical assistance at the request of the patron. First up, I have some quick actions to get out of the way before we begin hearing bills. The first one, the patron, Delegate ward, asked that HB61 go by for the day. Do I have a motion? Second. It's been motioned and properly seconded that we move that bill by for the day. All those in favor say aye. All opposed? That bill is by for the day. Next, at the request of the patron, we have two bills to strike that…
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