Virginia Senate Bill 385 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 7 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception. Requires that the State Corporation Commission promulgate regulations requiring (i) certain otherwise exempted engineers to be licensed with the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation's Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects and (ii) licensed engineers to exercise responsible charge on certain engineering projects. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2021.

Professional engineers; regulations, scope of exception.

Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]

2020-03-03 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (74-Y 22-N) (Y: 74 N: 22 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-07		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0822)
2020-04-07		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 822 (effective 1/1/21)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-07	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-06	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB385ER)
2020-03-06	Senate	Enrolled
2020-03-03	House	VOTE: Passage (74-Y 22-N)
2020-03-03	House	Passed House (74-Y 22-N)
2020-03-03	House	Read third time
2020-03-02	House	Read second time
2020-02-27	House	Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N)
2020-02-25	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2020-02-14	House	Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-05	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-04	Senate	Printed as engrossed 20107043D-ES1
2020-02-04	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB385ES1
2020-02-04	Senate	Amendments by Senator McPike agreed to
2020-02-04	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2020-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107043D-S1
2020-02-04	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-04	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-03	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-01-31	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-01-29	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107043D-S1
2020-01-29	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2020-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2020-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102993D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	401	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB385
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB385+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB385S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB385ES1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB385ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0822+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S12V0100+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0257SB0385+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0337SB0385+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1101V0077+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H11V0436+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H11V0451+SB0385
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1757+SB0385