Virginia House Bill 1600 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Labor and Commerce
Pending: House Labor and Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Leave for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Requires private employers to allow volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services providers to take leaves of absence from their employment at times when the employee leaves work, or is late for work, due to the employee's providing emergency services as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer emergency medical services provider for or on behalf of, and within the scope of his duties with, his volunteer fire department, or is returning from providing such emergency services. This provision does not apply if the absence of employees from the place of employment reduces the number of employees remaining on the job or at work at such place of employment by 50 percent or more. The bill allows employers to treat such leaves of absence as unpaid leave. Employers are prohibited from requiring such employee to exhaust any other leave to which he is entitled prior to such leaves of absence. The bill provides that if such an employee fails to provide the employer, upon request, with verification from the chief or deputy chief of the employee's volunteer fire department that the employee was providing such services, or returning from providing them, during the time that the employee took a leave of absence, the employee shall not thereafter be entitled to take such leave.

Volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services providers; leaves of absence from work.

Del. James Edmunds [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Labor and Commerce
2020-01-21	House	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
2020-01-15	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-01-15	House	Presented and ordered printed 20105308D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	1	28.7:7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1600
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1600+hil