republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-658.md

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Bill	Contracts with design professionals; provisions requiring a duty to defend void.	Contracts with design professionals; provisionsrequiring a duty to defend void. Provides that a provision containedin a contract between an architect or professional engineer and anypublic body relating to the planning or design of a building requiringthe architect or professional engineer to defend another party tothe contract or a named indemnitee against liability for damage arisingout of bodily injury to persons or damage to the property sufferedin the course of the performance of the contract that is caused byor that resulted solely from the negligence of such other party isagainst public policy and is void and unenforceable.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 658	Virginia SB 658 (2020)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	5	32	6	2020-01-07	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/1a53f797-3b3d-4ef7-b303-9acdb0d16d31	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB658	17b0c4de218c7b8038009deebd100d9ed2b7d31bff41ac6aee98e477e043e734	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 658 (2020) — Contracts with design professionals; provisions requiring a duty to defend void.

Contracts with design professionals; provisionsrequiring a duty to defend void. Provides that a provision containedin a contract between an architect or professional engineer and anypublic body relating to the planning or design of a building requiringthe architect or professional engineer to defend another party tothe contract or a named indemnitee against liability for damage arisingout of bodily injury to persons or damage to the property sufferedin the course of the performance of the contract that is caused byor that resulted solely from the negligence of such other party isagainst public policy and is void and unenforceable.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1015) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB658ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB658S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB658) (committee substitute) — source
5. SB658S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (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 (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102079D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2020-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB658)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Committee substitute printed 20106927D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Floor substitute printed 20107348D-S2 (Surovell)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute rejected 20106927D-S1
• 2020-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-03 Substitute by Senator agreed to 20107348D-S2
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB658S2
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 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: Open Government/Procurement referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB658S2)
• 2020-02-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-25 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 Passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled
• 2020-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB658ER)
• 2020-03-03 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Signed by President
• 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
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1015 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a53f797-3b3d-4ef7-b303-9acdb0d16d31. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).