---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contractors; exemption from licensure for work providing remodeling, etc., valued at $25,000, etc."
description: "Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the \"licensure requirements for contractors\" any work undertaken by a person providing construction, remodeling, repair, improvement, removal, or demolition valued at $25,000 or less per project on behalf of a properly licensed contractor. Current law provides this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or less per project."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 121"
citation: "Virginia SB 121 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Travis Hackworth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-07"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db789130-7aa1-497a-981a-38f1a5625476"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB121"
source_hash: "bc13811366c461a6b5d7a78b561004bb37456e6c181c930b392f2337f85c523f"
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 121 (2022) — Contractors; exemption from licensure for work providing remodeling, etc., valued at $25,000, etc.

Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the "licensure requirements for contractors" any work undertaken by a person providing construction, remodeling, repair, improvement, removal, or demolition valued at $25,000 or less per project on behalf of a properly licensed contractor. Current law provides this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or less per project.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0149** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0149)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101399D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB121)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22101399D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB121E)
4. **SB121ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB121ER)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N) — **19–3** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Committee amendment agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N 1-A) — **57–40** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- T. Travis Hackworth — primary (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101399D `introduction`
- **2022-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB121)
- **2022-01-19** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB121E
- **2022-01-24** Printed as engrossed 22101399D-E
- **2022-01-25** Passed by for the day
- **2022-01-26** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB121E)
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Passed by for the day
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed House (58-Y 40-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N 1-A)
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB121ER)
- **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
- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (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/db789130-7aa1-497a-981a-38f1a5625476`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).