republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-259.md

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Bill	Virginia Public Procurement Act; performance and payment bonds.	Virginia Public Procurement Act; performance and payment bonds. Requires a performance bond and payment bond to be furnished by the contractor for all nontransportation-related public construction contracts that exceed $500,000 and all transportation-related projects that exceed $350,000 and are partially or wholly funded by the Commonwealth. Current law only requires these bonds for certain types of contracts.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 259	Virginia SB 259 (2022)	bill		enacted	John J. Bell	4	32	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a5ee89b6-f241-42d3-a59c-fcf0287c400b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB259	775c7ac39a56003562b2ed06356188ecc02cd660f98d2473f907d77a9360e804	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 259 (2022) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; performance and payment bonds.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; performance and payment bonds. Requires a performance bond and payment bond to be furnished by the contractor for all nontransportation-related public construction contracts that exceed $500,000 and all transportation-related projects that exceed $350,000 and are partially or wholly funded by the Commonwealth. Current law only requires these bonds for certain types of contracts.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0565 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22107007D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101398D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB259ER (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 (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101398D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB259)
• 2022-01-19 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2022-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-27 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 (5-Y 1-N)
• 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 22107007D-H1 substitution
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB259H1)
• 2022-03-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Committee substitute agreed to 22107007D-H1
• 2022-03-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB259H1
• 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 22107007D-H1
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled
• 2022-03-11 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB259ER)
• 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 565 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5ee89b6-f241-42d3-a59c-fcf0287c400b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).