---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contractors, Board for; adds a professional engineer to membership."
description: "Contractors, Board for; adds a professional engineer to membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1374"
citation: "Virginia SB 1374 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill R. DeSteph, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b4891a7-0af1-46fd-886c-7cde19c9c4b4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1374"
source_hash: "170d6cad04e4402de8f22c5ca5773339b4fbd82cf3788a4896e9f24b5fc68542"
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 1374 (2017) — Contractors, Board for; adds a professional engineer to membership.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0579)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1374ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1374ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103951D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1374)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — primary (person)
- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103951D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 579 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b4891a7-0af1-46fd-886c-7cde19c9c4b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).