Virginia House Bill 55 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: Passed on April 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-06 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Worker cooperatives. Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. A worker cooperative is a stock corporation that has elected to be governed by provisions established by this measure, which include (i) conducting its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members, (ii) allowing only current and retired employees to be members, (iii) limiting voting rights to current employees, (iv) providing that each employee is entitled to one vote, (v) prohibiting any person from owning more than one membership share, (vi) requiring at least two-thirds of employees to own membership shares, and (vii) requiring that net earnings be paid or credited to members in accordance with the ratio that each member's amount of work performed during a period bears to the total amount of work performed by all members during that period.

Worker cooperatives; establishes as a category of cooperative associations.

Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]
Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. David Bulova [D]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Del. Joshua Cole [D]
Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler [D]	Del. Glenn Davis [R]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]
Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. C.E. Hayes [D]	Del. Steve Heretick [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Michael Mullin [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Sen. Danica Roem [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]
Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Luke Torian [D]	Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2020-03-05 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 31-N) (Y: 61 N: 31 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (25-Y 14-N 1-A) (Y: 25 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (28-Y 12-N) (Y: 28 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (62-Y 36-N) (Y: 62 N: 36 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-28 - House - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (10-Y 8-N) (Y: 10 N: 8 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-06		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673)
2020-04-06		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 673 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-17		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-17	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-12	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-12	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB55ER)
2020-03-12	House	Enrolled
2020-03-05	House	VOTE: Adoption (61-Y 31-N)
2020-03-05	House	Senate amendment agreed to by House (61-Y 31-N)
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed Senate with amendment (25-Y 14-N 1-A)
2020-03-05	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed Senate with amendment (28-Y 12-N)
2020-03-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2020-03-05	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-03-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-05	Senate	Read third time
2020-03-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-02	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (14-Y 1-N)
2020-02-04	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-03	House	VOTE: Passage (62-Y 36-N)
2020-02-03	House	Read third time and passed House (62-Y 36-N)
2020-01-31	House	Read second time and engrossed
2020-01-30	House	Read first time
2020-01-28	House	Reported from Labor and Commerce (10-Y 8-N)
2019-11-30	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2019-11-30	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100832D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
13	1	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text
13	1	307	(n/a)	See Bill Text
13	1	308	(n/a)	See Bill Text
13	1	346	(n/a)	See Bill Text
13	1	355	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB55
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB55+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB55ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0673+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H14V0107+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0330+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0234+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1529HB0055+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1578HB0055+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1581HB0055+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1582HB0055+HB0055
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1950+HB0055