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type: "Bill"
title: "Va. Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement, stream restoration & stormwater management."
description: "Excludes the purchase of (i) stream restoration and (ii) stormwater management practices, and all associated and necessary construction and maintenance, from the prohibition on using cooperative procurement to purchase construction. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 688"
citation: "Virginia SB 688 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5792452e-85a2-4cdf-92ef-e0ac78f1883a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB688"
source_hash: "7faabc1e43b1b5e443505329ef02bf13e4c850da834c1953ae87b9e8a9c5b5fb"
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 688 (2018) — Va. Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement, stream restoration & stormwater management.
Excludes the purchase of (i) stream restoration and (ii) stormwater management practices, and all associated and necessary construction and maintenance, from the prohibition on using cooperative procurement to purchase construction. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB688ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB688ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106161D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB688S1)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104305D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB688)
## Votes
- Passed House — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **210** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104305D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 18106161D-S1
- **2018-02-01** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB688S1
- **2018-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House (99-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (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/5792452e-85a2-4cdf-92ef-e0ac78f1883a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).