---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minimum wage; exemptions."
description: "Eliminates the exemptions to Virginia's minimum wage requirements for newsboys, shoe-shine boys, babysitters who work 10 hours or more per week, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, and cashiers in theaters. The measure contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2473"
citation: "Virginia HB 2473 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcia S. \"Cia\" Price"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8bf9347-55da-4875-a8f5-de869846d011"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2473"
source_hash: "aebaa9a602aed9f83736188e56cd613372190731704f5593bc67181b32550111"
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 2473 (2019) — Minimum wage; exemptions.

Eliminates the exemptions to Virginia's minimum wage requirements for newsboys, shoe-shine boys, babysitters who work 10 hours or more per week, ushers, doormen, concession attendants, and cashiers in theaters. The measure contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0330)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2473ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2473ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103019D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2473)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **83–16** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **17–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103019D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (83-Y 16-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 330 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8bf9347-55da-4875-a8f5-de869846d011`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).