---
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 SB 121."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 20"
citation: "Virginia HB 20 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adele Y. McClure"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-12-22"
last_action: "2026-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4209aee7-5eac-4d5e-b890-77ed6f626a33"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB20"
source_hash: "710562d76422289af579c0e072f7d0ced6cd94e95b63242f703f12d1faa09d6e"
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 HB 20 (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 SB 121.

## 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/1082002.PDF)
2. **Appropriations Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1133564.HTML)
3. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217658.PDF)
4. **Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1128501.HTML)
5. **Commerce and Labor Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1177661.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1134200.PDF)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1212138.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **9–6** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) — **15–7** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **64–35** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **21–19** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Labor and Commerce — **15–7** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **62–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adele Y. McClure — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Charlie Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsey Dougherty — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- May Nivar — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100660D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-12-22** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
- **2026-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
- **2026-01-27** Reported from Labor and Commerce and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-28** Assigned HAPP sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-02-04** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 1-N)
- **2026-02-06** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-12** Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
- **2026-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-13** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Committee substitute printed 26108317D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
- **2026-03-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-05** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-05** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-06** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
- **2026-03-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2026-03-09** Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 35-N 0-A) `substitution`
- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB20ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
- **2026-03-31** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 357 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4209aee7-5eac-4d5e-b890-77ed6f626a33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).