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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Value engineering; raises minimum project cost."
+description: "Raises the minimum project cost requiring the use of value engineering from $5 million to $15 million. The bill exempts projects that are designed utilizing (i) a design-build contract or (ii) the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 from the value engineering requirements. This bill incorporates"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 125"
+citation: "Virginia SB 125 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Black"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-18"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a95b9db2-75f0-4b61-8576-73a23c767c37"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB125"
+source_hash: "96d42953171892e9bd2b8abba604aefbe9c43d5fc69c6d587a0b0092aedaa028"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 125 (2018) — Value engineering; raises minimum project cost.
+
+Raises the minimum project cost requiring the use of value engineering from $5 million to $15 million. The bill exempts projects that are designed utilizing (i) a design-build contract or (ii) the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 from the value engineering requirements. This bill incorporates
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB125ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB125ER)
+2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18105632D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB125S1)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101812D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB125)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richard H. Black — primary (person)
+- Barbara A. Favola (incorporated chief co-patron) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101812D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-18** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Incorporates SB117 (Favola)
+- **2018-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-29** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2018-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 18105632D-S1
+- **2018-01-29** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB125S1
+- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 290 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a95b9db2-75f0-4b61-8576-73a23c767c37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+