Virginia Senate Bill 1542 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on February 23 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Occupational health and safety laws; amount of civil penalties. Increases the maximum amount of civil penalties that may be assessed by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry for certain violations of occupational safety and health laws from $7,000 to $12,471 and for willful or repeated violations of such laws from $70,000 to $124,709. The measure also requires the Commissioner annually to increase the maximum civil penalty amounts, starting in 2018, by an amount that reflects the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index from the previous calendar year. This bill is identical to HB 1883.

Occupational safety and health laws; increases maximum amount of civil penalties.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

2017-02-14 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-09 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-09 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (28-Y 11-N) (Y: 28 N: 11 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 7-N) (Y: 32 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221)
2017-02-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 221 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-02-17		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
2017-02-17	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
2017-02-17	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-16	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-16	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1542ER)
2017-02-16	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-14	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	House	Read third time
2017-02-13	House	Read second time
2017-02-09	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N)
2017-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-02-08	House	Read first time
2017-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-03	Senate	Passed Senate (28-Y 11-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 7-N)
2017-02-02	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2017-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-30	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N)
2017-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2017-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 17101266D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	1	49.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1542
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1542+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1542ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0221+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S02V0052+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0229SB1542+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0285SB1542+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0287SB1542+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0288SB1542+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H14V0122+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H14V0124+SB1542
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2284+SB1542