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Bill

Employment; prohibited retaliatory action.

Employment; prohibited retaliatory action.Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, threatening,discriminating against, penalizing, or taking other retaliatory actionagainst an employee regarding the employee's compensation, terms,conditions, location, or privileges of employment because the employee(i) reports a violation or suspected violation of any federal orstate law or regulation to a supervisor or to any governmental bodyor law-enforcement official; (ii) is requested by a governmentalbody or law-enforcement official to participate in an investigation,hearing, or inquiry; (iii) refuses to engage in a criminal act thatwould subject the employee to criminal liability; (iv) refuses an employer's order to perform an action that the employee believes,which belief has an objective basis in fact, violates any federalor state law or regulation and the employee informs the employerthat the order is being refused for that reason; or (v) providesinformation to or testifies before any governmental body or law-enforcementofficial conducting an investigation, hearing, or inquiry into anyalleged violation by the employer of federal or state law or regulation.A person who alleges a violation of this chapter may bring a civilaction seeking injunctive relief, reinstatement, and compensation for lost wages, benefits, and other remuneration.

us/states/va

Virginia General Assembly

2020

HB 798

Virginia HB 798 (2020)

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enacted

Karrie K. Delaney

2020-01-07

2020-04-11

openstates

ocd-bill/e349cc23-2337-4473-83a3-d96909ad9b42

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB798

4df57b264fb9abace5163c168733404b7076c98ea31651efb9965252eca46476

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

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us-va

Virginia HB 798 (2020) — Employment; prohibited retaliatory action.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1136) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB798ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB798S1 (committee substitute) — source
HB798H1 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB798) (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (HB798H2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Senate insisted on substitute (23-Y 16-N) — 23–16 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Passage (76-Y 22-N) — 75–22 (pass) · lower
Senate acceded to request for second conference committee (20-Y 16-N) — 20–16 (pass) · upper
VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 98-N) — 1–97 (fail) · lower
Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 4-N) — 15–4 (pass) · lower
Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N) — 11–3 (pass) · upper
Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
VOTE: Adoption (65-Y 28-N 1-A) — 64–28 (pass) · lower
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N) — 21–19 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103743D introduction
2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
2020-01-16 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
2020-01-30 Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 4-N) committee-passage
2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House (76-Y 22-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-05 VOTE: Passage (76-Y 22-N)
2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-06 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (HB798)
2020-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N) committee-passage
2020-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2020-02-27 Read third time reading-3
2020-02-27 Passed by for the day
2020-02-28 Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2020-02-28 Rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
2020-03-02 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
2020-03-02 Committee substitute printed 20109417D-S1 substitution
2020-03-03 Passed by for the day
2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
2020-03-04 Reading of substitute waived
2020-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20109417D-S1
2020-03-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB798S1
2020-03-04 Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N) passage
2020-03-05 Placed on Calendar
2020-03-05 Senate substitute rejected by House 20109417D-S1 (1-Y 98-N)
2020-03-05 VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 98-N)
2020-03-05 Senate insisted on substitute (23-Y 16-N)
2020-03-05 Senate requested conference committee
2020-03-05 House acceded to request
2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
2020-03-07 First Conference substitute printed 20109692D-H1
2020-03-07 Conference report ruled not germane
2020-03-07 House requested second conference committee
2020-03-07 Senate acceded to request for second conference committee (20-Y 16-N)
2020-03-07 Second conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-07 Second conferees appointed by House
2020-03-07 Second Conference substitute printed 20109977D-H2
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (65-Y 28-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (65-Y 28-N 1-A)
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
2020-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB798H2)
2020-03-18 Enrolled
2020-03-18 Signed by President
2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB798ER)
2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1136 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e349cc23-2337-4473-83a3-d96909ad9b42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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