HB280: Fraud to accomplish vote on union organization; person guilty of misdemeanor.

HOUSE BILL NO. 280
Offered January 13, 2010
Prefiled January 11, 2010
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-210.1, relating to use of fraud or artifice to accomplish vote on union organization.
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Patron-- Albo
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Committee Referral Pending
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-210.1 as follows:

§ 18.2-210.1 Use of fraud, material artifice, trickery, or deception to accomplish vote on union organization.

Any person who causes or assists in causing a vote to be taken by non-union employees on whether to organize a union by (i) knowingly and intentionally failing to provide full and complete information regarding the consequences of a signature or a vote or an affirmation by another or (ii) fraud, material artifice, trickery, or deception, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.