Virginia House Bill 1106 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Office of the Attorney General; misclassification of employees as independent contractors. Authorizes the Attorney General, upon reasonable cause to believe that a person is wrongfully misclassifying employees within the Commonwealth as independent contractors, to conduct an investigation into such possible wrongful misclassification. Upon probable cause that a person has wrongfully misclassified employees within the Commonwealth as independent contractors, the Attorney General shall have the authority to file a complaint in the circuit court where such person is located, seeking recovery of all amounts owed to departments and commissions of Virginia, unpaid wages or overtime for employees, and any other losses of benefits, amounts due under the law, and damages employees suffered due to the wrongful misclassification. The circuit court may award judgment in the amount owed, including prejudgment and postjudgment interest, and assess all costs and reasonable attorney fees against a person who wrongfully misclassified employees as independent contractors.

Attorney General, Office of the; misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2018-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N) (Y: 3 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-26	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (3-Y 5-N)
2018-01-18	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101871D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	509.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1106
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1106+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0802V0059+HB1106