HB 55 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Worker cooperatives; establishes as a category of cooperative associations.

Summary
Worker cooperatives. Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. A worker cooperative is a stock corporation that has elected to be governed by provisions established by this measure, which include (i) conducting its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members, (ii) allowing only current and retired employees to be members, (iii) limiting voting rights to current employees, (iv) providing that each employee is entitled to one vote, (v) prohibiting any person from owning more than one membership share, (vi) requiring at least two-thirds of employees to own membership shares, and (vii) requiring that net earnings be paid or credited to members in accordance with the ratio that each member's amount of work performed during a period bears to the total amount of work performed by all members during that period.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Nov 30, 2019 Signed Apr 6, 2020
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
28
Key actions
7
Committee
5
Amendments
3
Apr 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 673 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (61-Y 31-N)
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (25-Y 14-N 1-A)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (28-Y 12-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (14-Y 1-N)
upper
Feb 4, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (62-Y 36-N)
lower
Jan 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Labor and Commerce (10-Y 8-N)
lower
Nov 30, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
lower
Nov 30, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100832D
lower
1 primary · 31 co-sponsors

Sponsors