---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contractors, Board for; prerequisites to obtaining a building permit."
description: "Contractors, Board for; prerequisites to obtaining a building permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Virginia HB 164 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Oaths", "Affirmations and Bonds", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-21"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71b17a00-cdaf-4f7a-a94e-022f3cb7676e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB164"
source_hash: "888b91d842719101feae9fbf01a99fc78b58510c25ccef761e21ecf3748c7b97"
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 164 (2018) — Contractors, Board for; prerequisites to obtaining a building permit.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0037)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB164ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB164ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102001D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB164)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David E. Yancey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102001D `introduction`
- **2017-12-21** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 37 (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/71b17a00-cdaf-4f7a-a94e-022f3cb7676e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).