republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-225.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting."
description: "Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting; limitations. Provides that the sum of all projects performed in an architectural and professional engineering contract term shall not exceed $10 million, and the fee for any single project shall not exceed $2.5 million. The bill allows a contract for multiple architectural or professional engineering projects to be renewable for up to three additional terms at the option of the public body. Current law limits the sum of all projects performed in a one-year contract term to $750,000, with up to four additional one-year terms at the option of the public body, and limits the fee for any single project to $150,000, with specific exceptions to those limits, including a limit for total projects for rail projects of $5 million and for highway projects, $8 million. The bill also removes specific agency and locality exceptions to such current limits. The bill is identical to HB 429."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "Virginia SB 225 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2f7d069-3b4e-4891-8b1f-6bd6f8bccbad"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB225"
source_hash: "ccec17a84763c14bed193ccbd9053540e38c36998e5dfcb3762fbef5f0ccdab4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia SB 225 (2022) — Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting; limitations. Provides that the sum of all projects performed in an architectural and professional engineering contract term shall not exceed $10 million, and the fee for any single project shall not exceed $2.5 million. The bill allows a contract for multiple architectural or professional engineering projects to be renewable for up to three additional terms at the option of the public body. Current law limits the sum of all projects performed in a one-year contract term to $750,000, with up to four additional one-year terms at the option of the public body, and limits the fee for any single project to $150,000, with specific exceptions to those limits, including a limit for total projects for rail projects of $5 million and for highway projects, $8 million. The bill also removes specific agency and locality exceptions to such current limits. The bill is identical to HB 429.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0505** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0505)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101049D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB225)
3. **SB225ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB225ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101049D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB225)
- **2022-01-19** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `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** Passed by for the day
- **2022-01-26** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **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** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-22** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-25** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-02-25** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Enrolled
- **2022-03-03** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB225ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **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
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 505 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2f7d069-3b4e-4891-8b1f-6bd6f8bccbad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).