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Bill Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Increases from $20,000 to $30,000 per claim the individual limit of claims against the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund based upon an unpaid judgment arising out of the improper or dishonest conduct of a licensed contractor in connection with a single transaction involving contracting and increases from $40,000 to $100,000 during any biennium the aggregate claim limit against a single licensed contractor. The bill also raises the thresholds for the value of single contracts or projects and the total value of all construction, removal, repair, or improvements undertaken by a contractor in a 12-month period that govern each class of contractor's licenses. This bill is identical to SB 1059. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 1707 Virginia HB 1707 (2025)
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Virginia HB 1707 (2025) — Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts.

Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund; claim limits; license threshold amounts. Increases from $20,000 to $30,000 per claim the individual limit of claims against the Virginia Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund based upon an unpaid judgment arising out of the improper or dishonest conduct of a licensed contractor in connection with a single transaction involving contracting and increases from $40,000 to $100,000 during any biennium the aggregate claim limit against a single licensed contractor. The bill also raises the thresholds for the value of single contracts or projects and the total value of all construction, removal, repair, or improvements undertaken by a contractor in a 12-month period that govern each class of contractor's licenses. This bill is identical to SB 1059.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) — 120 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — 210 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • David L. Bulova — primary (person)
  • Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100918D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2025-01-13 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
  • 2025-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-21 Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-23 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-01-27 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1707)
  • 2025-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-01-28 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2025-02-05 Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-07 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-07 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-12 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-02-12 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1707ER) passage
  • 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1707)
  • 2025-02-12 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-02-15 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 127 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/999fa10c-d40e-4d4b-aeb6-7a29b6eb3136. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).