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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid bonds, construction contracts.	Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid bonds; certain transportation-related contracts. Provides that, except in cases of emergency, all bids and proposals for certain transportation-related contracts in excess of $350,000 and partially or wholly funded by the Commonwealth shall be accompanied by a bid bond. Current law sets the bid or proposal amount for such contracts at $250,000.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 258	Virginia SB 258 (2022)	bill		enacted	John J. Bell	4	32	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/356bee62-417a-43ad-8504-f5f45220500f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB258	7b905dba4f2e9d2f572c20b34d7afe2ca6787fb9c33b81a3ba2b4b710ed0cbda	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 258 (2022) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid bonds, construction contracts.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; bid bonds; certain transportation-related contracts. Provides that, except in cases of emergency, all bids and proposals for certain transportation-related contracts in excess of $350,000 and partially or wholly funded by the Commonwealth shall be accompanied by a bid bond. Current law sets the bid or proposal amount for such contracts at $250,000.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0413 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22107006D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101397D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB258ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101397D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB258)
• 2022-01-19 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-25 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
• 2022-03-03 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-03 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-03 Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Committee substitute printed 22107006D-H1 substitution
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB258H1)
• 2022-03-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Committee substitute agreed to 22107006D-H1
• 2022-03-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB258H1
• 2022-03-08 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-09 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-09 Title replaced 22107006D-H1
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled
• 2022-03-11 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB258ER)
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 413 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/356bee62-417a-43ad-8504-f5f45220500f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).