---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment compensation; increases penalty for failure to file reports."
description: "Increases the penalty, from $75 to $100, that the Virginia Employment Commission is required to assess an employer who fails to file a report required under Title 60.2 (Unemployment Compensation) with respect to wages or taxes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1293"
citation: "Virginia HB 1293 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4d9cc5d-c53b-488b-8b41-e382387a6d23"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1293"
source_hash: "7b13338e87143fd6a92a8c3aa28e06f6107539f70d5220b341aebc59407e5e03"
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 1293 (2018) — Unemployment compensation; increases penalty for failure to file reports.

Increases the penalty, from $75 to $100, that the Virginia Employment Commission is required to assess an employer who fails to file a report required under Title 60.2 (Unemployment Compensation) with respect to wages or taxes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1293ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1293ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102517D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1293)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102517D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1293E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **31–9** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **37–2** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments — **19–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **7–5** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **23–17** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **87–11** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102517D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2018-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-02-12** Engrossed by House as amended HB1293E
- **2018-02-12** Printed as engrossed 18102517D-E
- **2018-02-13** Read third time and passed House (87-Y 11-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 227 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4d9cc5d-c53b-488b-8b41-e382387a6d23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).