Bill Text: VA HB1921 | 2023 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Virginia House Bill 1921 (Prior Session Legislation)

VA State Legislature page for HB1921

Bill Title: Earned wage access services; licensure requirements, prohibited practices, penalties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2023-02-25 - Failed to pass in House [HB1921 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2023-HB1921-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1921 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on February 13, 2023) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Batten) A BILL to direct the Bureau of Financial Institutions of the State Corporation Commission to conduct a stakeholder process on the provision of earned wage access services; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Bureau of Financial Institutions (the Bureau) of the State Corporation Commission shall convene a stakeholder process regarding the provision or offering of earned wage access services that includes representatives from providers of earned wage access services, consumer advocates, and the Office of the Attorney General. Such stakeholder process shall include a review of existing business models and any regulation of earned wage access services in other states. The Bureau shall report the findings and recommendations, if any, of the stakeholder process, including any recommendations for statutory or regulatory changes regarding earned wage access services, to the General Assembly by November 1, 2023.