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type: "Bill"
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title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts."
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description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; architecturaland professional engineering term contracts; limitations on projectfees; localities. Decreases the population threshold from 78,000to 50,000 for a locality to qualify for the exceptions from (i) the $150,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $750,000 annual aggregatetotal limit for all such projects."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 368"
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citation: "Virginia SB 368 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["John J. Bell"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2020-01-06"
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last_action: "2020-04-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cead85e-bcd8-48c3-a6cb-9a71e62f4858"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB368"
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source_hash: "3a1775df8451ee707383a7961aff4b089d1ba4a97160a9ad2e09f172c6e8cafe"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 368 (2020) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracts.
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Virginia Public Procurement Act; architecturaland professional engineering term contracts; limitations on projectfees; localities. Decreases the population threshold from 78,000to 50,000 for a locality to qualify for the exceptions from (i) the $150,000 single-project fee limit for architectural and professional engineering term contracts and (ii) the $750,000 annual aggregatetotal limit for all such projects.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0618)
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2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB368ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB368ER)
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3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB368)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB368)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **39–1** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- John J. Bell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103623D `introduction`
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- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (SB368)
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- **2020-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-02-18** Placed on Calendar
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- **2020-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-18** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-21** Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-27** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-03** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2020-03-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
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- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB368ER)
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- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
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- **2020-03-07** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
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- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
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- **2020-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 618 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cead85e-bcd8-48c3-a6cb-9a71e62f4858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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