Employees providing domestic service; definitions, report. (SB804)

Introduced By

Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) with support from co-patrons Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke), and Sen. Lionell Spruill (D-Chesapeake)

Progress

✓	Introduced
✓	Passed Committee
☐	Passed House
✓	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Virginia Minimum Wage Act; domestic service. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons employed in domestic service. The bill requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to convene a work group consisting of representatives from the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Employment Commission, and the Workers' Compensation Commission to make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, with regard to protecting domestic service employees from workplace harassment and discrimination, providing remedies for such employees for the nonpayment of wages, ensuring the safety and health of such employees in the workplace, and protecting such employees from loss of income as a result of unemployment or employment-related injury by including coverage of such employees in the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. Read the Bill »

Status

02/20/2020: passed committee

History

Date	Action
01/08/2020	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105005D
01/08/2020	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
02/09/2020	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
02/09/2020	Committee substitute printed 20108041D-S1
02/10/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/11/2020	Read second time
02/11/2020	Reading of substitute waived
02/11/2020	Committee substitute agreed to 20108041D-S1
02/11/2020	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB804S1
02/11/2020	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/11/2020	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/14/2020	Placed on Calendar
02/14/2020	Read first time
02/14/2020	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
02/14/2020	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
02/17/2020	Impact statement from DPB (SB804S1)
02/18/2020	House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
02/18/2020	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
02/20/2020	Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 8-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2020	House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/24/2020	Read second time
02/25/2020	Passed by for the day