Virginia House Bill 1729 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-01-29 - Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Payment of wages to employees. Requires employers to maintain and preserve records regarding the rate of pay, hours worked, earnings due, wages paid, and related matters for each employee. The measure provides a standard for how an employee, in an action to collect unpaid wages, may meet his burden of establishing that he is entitled to the wages. The measure also amends an employee's existing private right of action for unpaid wages by requiring the court to award attorney fees and other costs to a prevailing employee. In such a proceeding, unless the employer shows good faith, the court shall award to the employee three times the amount of unpaid wages. An action for unpaid wages shall be commenced within two years after the action accrued, or within three years if the violation is willful.

Payment of wages to employees; requires employers to maintain and preserve certain records.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Del. David Toscano [D]

Del. Patrick Hope [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-29	House	Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote
2013-01-10	House	Assigned C & L sub: #2
2013-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2013-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13102591D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	1	29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1729
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1729+hil