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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Automatic fire sprinkler inspectors; certification, exempts building officials and fire officials."
+description: "Board for Contractors; certification of automaticfire sprinkler inspectors; exempts building officials and fire officials.Exempts building officials enforcing the Uniform Statewide BuildingCode and fire officials enforcing the Virginia Statewide Fire PreventionCode Act from the certification requirements applicable to automaticfire sprinkler inspectors."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 474"
+citation: "Virginia HB 474 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Emily M. Brewer"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3c68aa2-1829-44e7-a30e-2b22cc8f82d4"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB474"
+source_hash: "7d84a70086206c11db0bdc956457ce693a6edd9b76fa7ddaa04d7c15c0c9c322"
+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 HB 474 (2022) — Automatic fire sprinkler inspectors; certification, exempts building officials and fire officials.
+
+Board for Contractors; certification of automaticfire sprinkler inspectors; exempts building officials and fire officials.Exempts building officials enforcing the Uniform Statewide BuildingCode and fire officials enforcing the Virginia Statewide Fire PreventionCode Act from the certification requirements applicable to automaticfire sprinkler inspectors.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0340** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0340)
+2. **HB474ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB474ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102050D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB474)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Emily M. Brewer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102050D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-18** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB474)
+- **2022-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-03** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-08** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-09** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2022-02-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-03** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-03** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB474ER)
+- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
+- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 340 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3c68aa2-1829-44e7-a30e-2b22cc8f82d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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