Garnishment of wages; protected portion of disposable earnings.
Summary
Garnishment of wages; protected portion of disposable earnings. Provides that the Virginia minimum hourly wage shallbe used to calculate the amount of a person's aggregate disposableearnings protected from garnishment if it is greater than the federalminimum hourly wage.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Feb 2021
Introduced Jan 6, 2021
Signed Feb 25, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2021 · House of Delegates Jan 25, 2021
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 15, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Feb 25, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 8 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 26, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 20, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2021
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Civil
lower
Jan 6, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 6, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100334D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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