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| Bill | Contractors; exemption from licensure for work providing remodeling, etc., valued at $25,000, etc. | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the "licensure requirements for contractors" any work undertaken by a person providing construction, remodeling, repair, improvement, removal, or demolition valued at $25,000 or less per project on behalf of a properly licensed contractor. Current law provides this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or less per project. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 121 | Virginia SB 121 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 121 (2022) — Contractors; exemption from licensure for work providing remodeling, etc., valued at $25,000, etc.
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the "licensure requirements for contractors" any work undertaken by a person providing construction, remodeling, repair, improvement, removal, or demolition valued at $25,000 or less per project on behalf of a properly licensed contractor. Current law provides this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or less per project.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0149 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101399D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22101399D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB121ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
- Committee amendment agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N 1-A) — 57–40 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- T. Travis Hackworth — primary (person)
- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101399D
introduction - 2022-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB121)
- 2022-01-19 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-01-24 Reading of amendment waived
- 2022-01-24 Committee amendment agreed to (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-24 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB121E
- 2022-01-24 Printed as engrossed 22101399D-E
- 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
- 2022-01-26 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB121E)
- 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-21 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2022-02-22 Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-25 Passed by for the day
- 2022-02-28 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-28 Passed House (58-Y 40-N 1-A)
passage - 2022-02-28 VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N 1-A)
- 2022-03-02 Enrolled
- 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-03 Signed by President
- 2022-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB121ER)
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db789130-7aa1-497a-981a-38f1a5625476. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).