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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts."
description: "Includes a school division in a locality with a population in excess of 78,000 under the exception from (i) the $100,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $1 million annual aggregate total of all such projects. Under the bill, such school divisions may pay a single-project fee of up to $2.5 million and an annual aggregate of $6 million."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1508"
citation: "Virginia SB 1508 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Contracts", "Education", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Cosgrove, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e89d9591-e2bb-4fa4-8014-525ce447be39"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1508"
source_hash: "6935200e2d7a87457bee093f486b288c53bb612af45dd3351724059c715b01d1"
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 1508 (2017) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts.
Includes a school division in a locality with a population in excess of 78,000 under the exception from (i) the $100,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $1 million annual aggregate total of all such projects. Under the bill, such school divisions may pay a single-project fee of up to $2.5 million and an annual aggregate of $6 million.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0555)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1508ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1508ER)
3. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17104079D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1508)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104079D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1508E)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 17104079D `introduction`
- **2017-01-18** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-07** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-07** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1508E
- **2017-02-07** Printed as engrossed 17104079D-E
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `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 555 (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/e89d9591-e2bb-4fa4-8014-525ce447be39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).