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Bill Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts. Virginia Public Procurement Act; architecturaland professional engineering term contracts; limitations on projectfees; localities. Decreases the population threshold from 78,000to 50,000 for a locality to qualify for the exceptions from (i) the $150,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $750,000 annual aggregatetotal limit for all such projects. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 SB 368 Virginia SB 368 (2020)
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Virginia SB 368 (2020) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; architecturaland professional engineering term contracts; limitations on projectfees; localities. Decreases the population threshold from 78,000to 50,000 for a locality to qualify for the exceptions from (i) the $150,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $750,000 annual aggregatetotal limit for all such projects.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB368ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB368) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 391 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 960 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • John J. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103623D introduction
  • 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB368)
  • 2020-01-15 Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-01-20 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-01-21 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-18 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2020-02-21 Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement referral-committee
  • 2020-02-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-27 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-03-02 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-03-03 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-03-03 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2020-03-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-03-06 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB368ER)
  • 2020-03-07 Signed by President
  • 2020-03-07 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 2020-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 618 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4cead85e-bcd8-48c3-a6cb-9a71e62f4858. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).