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2022 SESSION
SB 494 Virginia Human Rights Act; nondiscrimination in employment, definition of employer.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Human Rights Act; nondiscrimination in employment; definition of employer, statute of limitations, and provision of attorney fees. Amends the definition of "employer" to mean a person employing five or more employees, instead of 15 or more employees under current law, for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such person. The bill provides that a person claiming to be aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice may file a written complaint with the Division of Human Rights within two years of the occurrence of the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice and that an aggrieved person who has been provided a notice of his right to file a civil action for such grievance may do so within one year of receiving such notice or within two years after the alleged discriminatory practice occurred, whichever is later. The bill also changes a court's award of reasonable attorney fees and costs to a successful plaintiff from discretionary to mandatory.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102695D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/19/22 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/21/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/22 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/25/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/26/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/27/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/23/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/22 House: Read first time
- 02/23/22 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/23/22 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/24/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/24/22 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 03/01/22 House: Reported from General Laws (12-Y 10-N)
- 03/01/22 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 03/03/22 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Energy (10-Y 12-N)