Virginia House Bill 2283 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Nonpayment of wages; private action. Provides that an employee has cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages. The measure provides that if the court finds that the employer failed to pay wages, it shall award the employee the amount of wages due, plus interest at eight percent annually from the date the wages were due, reasonable attorney fees, and other costs. In addition, if the court finds that the employer's failure to pay wages was willful and with intent to defraud the employee, the court is required to award the employee an additional sum equal to the amount of wages due.

Wages; cause of action against an employer for nonpayment.

Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Sen. John Bell [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]
Del. Vivian Watts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2017-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2017-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-11	House	Presented and ordered printed 17103283D

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?171+sum+HB2283
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2283+hil