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HB 732 Contractors; work without valid Va. license, prohibited acts.
Introduced by: M. Keith Hodges | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; contractors; prohibited acts. Provides that a construction contract entered into by a person undertaking work without a valid Virginia contractor's license shall not be enforceable by the unlicensed contractor undertaking the work unless the unlicensed contractor (i) gives substantial performance within the terms of the contract in good faith and (ii) did not have actual knowledge that a license or certificate was required to perform the work for which he seeks to recover payment. This bill is identical to SB 478.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104410D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18105910D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB732ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/26/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104410D
- 01/09/18 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/19/18 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/25/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/18 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18105910D-H1
- 02/01/18 House: Read first time
- 02/02/18 House: Read second time
- 02/02/18 House: Committee substitute agreed to 18105910D-H1
- 02/02/18 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB732H1
- 02/05/18 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/18 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/12/18 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/18 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/18 House: Enrolled
- 02/19/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB732ER)
- 02/19/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/18 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- 02/22/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- 02/26/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 43 (effective 7/1/18)
- 02/26/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0043)