Virginia House Bill 37 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on November 28 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

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

Wages; cause of action against an employer for nonpayment.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Sen. John Bell [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]
Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]
Sen. Danica Roem [D]

2018-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2017-11-28	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-11-28	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100119D

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?181+sum+HB37
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB37+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0802V0042+HB0037