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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers."
+description: "Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemption from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 20."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 121"
+citation: "Virginia SB 121 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer D. Carroll Foy"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2026-01-05"
+last_action: "2026-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53263173-27af-4f92-8a6c-d45bb9a4c4d9"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB121"
+source_hash: "7d166dd16bbb4a76fb22ded52955e4f433a6a13b5ff73eb99a7d5df6033402aa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 121 (2026) — Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers.
+
+Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemption from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 20.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1082919.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217662.PDF)
+3. **Commerce and Labor Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1113407.HTML)
+4. **Senator Perry Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1149129.PDF)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194854.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce — **15–6** (pass) · lower
+- H VOTE: — **63–35** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — **8–6** (pass) · upper
+- Passage R — **21–19** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)
+- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100563D `filing, introduction`
+- **2026-01-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
+- **2026-02-02** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 6-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-11** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
+- **2026-02-12** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-13** Passed by for the day
+- **2026-02-16** Floor substitute printed 26108041D-S1 (Perry)
+- **2026-02-16** Commerce and Labor Amendment rejected `amendment-failure`
+- **2026-02-16** Floor offered Senator Perry Substitute
+- **2026-02-16** Reading of substitute waived (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-16** Senator Perry Substitute agreed to (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-16** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-17** Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
+- **2026-02-24** Placed on Calendar
+- **2026-02-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-24** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-26** Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Passed House (63-Y 35-N 0-A) `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-09** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB121ER) `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
+- **2026-03-09** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 358 (effective 1/1/2027) `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53263173-27af-4f92-8a6c-d45bb9a4c4d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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