| VA | SB1040 | Pass | Employer use of use of employee's social security number; prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits an employer from using an employee's social security number or any derivative thereof as such employee's identification number or including an employee's s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0135) |
| VA | HB2179 | Pass | Department of Labor and Industry; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; notice of disciplinary action; method of delivery to allow for confirmation of delivery. Authorizes the use of commercial delivery services with signed and date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0100) |
| VA | HB1895 | Enroll
75% | Nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements; prohibited nondisparagement provisions; claims of sexual harassment. Provides that no employer may require an employee or prospective employee to execute or renew any provision in a nondisclosure or confid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1924 | Enroll
75% | Minimum wage; employees with disabilities. Provides that individuals with disabilities that are paid at subminimum wage pursuant to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act are employees for the purposes of the Virginia Minimum Wage Act. The bill require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2195 | Enroll
75% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement (the Department) to administer workf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1470 | Enroll
75% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement (the Department) to administer workf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB788 | Enroll
75% | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1598 | Enroll
75% | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB886 | Engross
50% | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | SB1136 | Engross
50% | Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in determining th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | SB1086 | Engross
50% | Living organ donors; unpaid leave; civil penalty. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with (i) up to 60 business days of unpaid organ donation leave in any 12-month period to se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1126 | Enroll
75% | Department of Labor and Industry; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; notice of disciplinary action; method of delivery to allow for confirmation of delivery. Authorizes the use of commercial delivery services with signed and date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Signed by Speaker |
| VA | HB1597 | Intro
25% | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1669 | Intro
25% | Minimum wage; employees younger than the age of 18. Requires employers to pay employees younger than the age of 18 wages at a rate not less than the greater of (i) $9.00 per hour or (ii) the federal minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB1873 | Intro
25% | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB1616 | Intro
25% | Workplace violence policy required for certain employers; civil penalty. Requires any employer of 100 or more employees to develop, implement, and maintain a workplace violence policy no later than January 1, 2024. The bill includes requirements for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2059 | Intro
25% | Noncitizens of the United States; aliens; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2023 | Intro
25% | Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in determining th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB1988 | Intro
25% | Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently provide paid sick leave for home health workers to cover all employees of private employers and state an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2003 | Intro
25% | Employment; training and education; sexual harassment and workplace discrimination. Requires each employer with 50 or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions, to provide annual interactive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2087 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2148 | Intro
25% | Employment discrimination; employee notification of federal and state statute of limitations. Requires an employer who receives an employee complaint alleging sexual assault, harassment, or any other form of discrimination for which the employee may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2116 | Intro
25% | Employment; restrictions on use of credit report for employment purposes. Prohibits employers from (i) using a credit report in connection with or as a criterion for employment purposes, (ii) requesting or procuring a credit report for employment pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB2473 | Intro
25% | Department of Labor and Industry; workplace poster for veterans benefits and services. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Services, to create a poster describing benefits and services availab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | SB792 | Intro
25% | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB833 | Intro
25% | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1315 | Intro
25% | Localities, public and private schools, institutions of higher education, and employers; face coverings. Prohibits any locality, school board, division superintendent, school principal, private school, institution of higher education, or employer fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB692 | Intro
25% | Apprenticeship Council; authority. Expands the duties of the Apprenticeship Council to include determining standards and regulations for pre-apprenticeship programs and advising the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry on how to innov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | SB750 | Intro
25% | Behavioral Health Hospital Authority; established. Creates the Behavioral Health Hospital Authority (the Authority) as an independent political subdivision of the Commonwealth, to control the delivery, financing, utilization, and health outcomes of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
