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2024 SESSION

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HB 157 Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers.

Introduced by: Adele Y. McClure | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. 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. This bill incorporates HB 866.

FULL TEXT

• 01/02/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103614D  pdf
• 01/18/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24105711D-H1  pdf | impact statement
• 03/06/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB157ER)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/02/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103614D
• 01/02/24  House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
• 01/18/24  House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
• 01/18/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24105711D-H1
• 01/18/24  House: Incorporates HB866 (Hernandez)
• 01/22/24  House: Read first time
• 01/23/24  House: Read second time
• 01/23/24  House: Committee substitute agreed to 24105711D-H1
• 01/23/24  House: Pending question ordered
• 01/23/24  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB157H1
• 01/24/24  House: Read third time and passed House (50-Y 49-N)
• 01/24/24  House: VOTE: Passage (50-Y 49-N)
• 01/25/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/25/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 02/26/24  Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N)
• 02/28/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/24  Senate: Read third time
• 02/29/24  Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)
• 03/06/24  House: Enrolled
• 03/06/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB157ER)
• 03/06/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/07/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 03/28/24  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 04/17/24  House: House sustained Governor's veto