republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-385.md

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Bill	Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception.	Engineers; exemption from regulation. Excludes engineering services rendered in connection with gas pipeline facilitiesfrom the exemption from regulation by the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects. Currently, this exemption exists for the practice ofengineering solely as (i) an employee of a corporation engaged ininterstate commerce or (ii) an employee of a public service corporation,by rendering such corporation engineering service in connection withits facilities that are subject to regulation by the State CorporationCommission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 385	Virginia SB 385 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	5	33	6	2020-01-06	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d3fbc3d9-082d-475c-b328-7ed9d285fbd4	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB385	f44c38f07c43083ed19b2be30e65a55121f143a85bc6c2f5ee238f28ea52116d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 385 (2020) — Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception.

Engineers; exemption from regulation. Excludes engineering services rendered in connection with gas pipeline facilitiesfrom the exemption from regulation by the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects. Currently, this exemption exists for the practice ofengineering solely as (i) an employee of a corporation engaged ininterstate commerce or (ii) an employee of a public service corporation,by rendering such corporation engineering service in connection withits facilities that are subject to regulation by the State CorporationCommission.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB385ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB385ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB385) (committee substitute) — source
5. SB385S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (74-Y 22-N) — 73–22 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102993D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB385)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Committee substitute printed 20107043D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20107043D-S1
• 2020-02-04 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-02-04 Amendments by Senator McPike agreed to amendment-passage
• 2020-02-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB385ES1
• 2020-02-04 Printed as engrossed 20107043D-ES1
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB385ES1)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-03 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Passed House (74-Y 22-N) passage
• 2020-03-03 VOTE: Passage (74-Y 22-N)
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled
• 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB385ER)
• 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
• 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 822 (effective 1/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d3fbc3d9-082d-475c-b328-7ed9d285fbd4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).