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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; contracts for architectural and engineering services."
description: "Increases the maximum permissible fee for any single project encompassed in a contract for architectural or professional engineering services relating to multiple construction projects from $100,000 to $150,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1693"
citation: "Virginia HB 1693 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Contracts", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher E. Collins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4539f235-16ff-436d-8440-77c51158cfc9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1693"
source_hash: "fbf0347c3427ae25b68a194b77279f45fb98b1f356b079737dbd22e9af1039af"
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 1693 (2017) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; contracts for architectural and engineering services.
Increases the maximum permissible fee for any single project encompassed in a contract for architectural or professional engineering services relating to multiple construction projects from $100,000 to $150,000.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0343)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1693ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1693ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102626D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1693)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102626D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1693E)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102626D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-11** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House as amended HB1693E
- **2017-01-27** Printed as engrossed 17102626D-E
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- **2017-02-16** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 343 (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/4539f235-16ff-436d-8440-77c51158cfc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).