VA SB853 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 23 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-24 - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 23 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-24 - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements; RPS-eligible source work; penalties. Requires each public service company, including its contractors and subcontractors, to ensure payment at the prevailing wage rate set by the Department of Labor and Industry for any mechanic, laborer, or worker employed, retained, or otherwise hired to perform construction, maintenance, or repair work for certain electricity generating sources. The bill requires each public service company to (i) ensure that 15 percent of the total labor hours of such work is performed by qualified apprentices and (ii) employ at least one qualified apprentice if four or more individuals are employed to perform such work. Under the bill, a public service company that fails to meet the requirements of its provisions is required to make penalty payments to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry.
Title
Prevailing wage rate; apprenticeship requirements, RPS-eligible source work, penalties.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-24 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) (Y: 20 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - Senate - Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - Senate - Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 18-N) |
| 2025-01-24 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB853) |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Committee substitute agreed to |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Reading of substitute waived |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25105468D-S1 |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (9-Y 6-N) |
| 2025-01-03 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 2025-01-03 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102569D |
