West Virginia legislation · 2026 Regular Session
West Virginia SB755: Removing state agencies' requirement to submit annual reports for certain businesses
Status: Signed into law, March 17, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §5A-3-59 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to removing the requirement that state agencies submit annual progress reports on small, women, and minority-owned business procurement to the Department of Administration. ARTICLE 3. PURCHASING DIVISION. §5A-3-59. Small, women, and minority-owned businesses. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Minority individual" means an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a noncitizen who is in full compliance with United States immigration law and who satisfies one or more of the following definitio.
From the enrolled text, March 11, 2026:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §5A-3-59 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to removing the requirement that state agencies submit annual progress reports on small, women, and minority-owned business procurement to the Department of Administration. ARTICLE 3. PURCHASING DIVISION. §5A-3-59. Small, women, and minority-owned businesses. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Minority individual" means an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a noncitizen who is in full compliance with United States immigration law and who satisfies one or more of the following definitions: (A) "African American" means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Africa and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part. (B) "Asian American" means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the Pacific Islands, including, but not limited to, Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part. (C) "Hispanic American" means a person having origins in any of the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, South or Central America, …