Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees.
Summary
Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
Bill status
failed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Dec 31, 2020
Last action Feb 22, 2021
Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 2, 2021
How they voted
54–44
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 99
Feb 2, 2021
D
Democratic54
100% Yea
R
Republican45
97% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
4
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Feb 3, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
upper
Feb 2, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N)
lower
Feb 1, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1786E
lower
Feb 1, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 28, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Jan 28, 2021
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 14, 2021
Committee
Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Dec 31, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
lower
Dec 31, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101349D
lower
1 primary · 6 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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