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type: "Bill"
title: "Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements, no person under 18 yrs. of age."
description: "Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements. Removes the provision prohibiting persons under 18 years of age from working around any mine and requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to conform its regulations to federal law with respect to such age requirements. The bill does not affect the existing provision prohibiting persons under 18 years of age from working in any mine."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 258"
citation: "Virginia SB 258 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ab2ae16-8fcf-4357-aa4c-45db373ba278"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB258"
source_hash: "b1da13c568555d83247d455af83b109a5f521f3eb9e09d7260556ca4e101ec51"
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 258 (2020) — Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements, no person under 18 yrs. of age.
Persons permitted to work in mines; age requirements. Removes the provision prohibiting persons under 18 years of age from working around any mine and requires the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to conform its regulations to federal law with respect to such age requirements. The bill does not affect the existing provision prohibiting persons under 18 years of age from working in any mine.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0804)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB258ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB258ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB258)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB258)
## Votes
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **61** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 2-N) — **972** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103072D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB258)
- **2020-01-14** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-28** Passed by for the day
- **2020-03-02** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Amendments by Delegate Levine agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-03-02** Passed House with amendments (98-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 2-N)
- **2020-03-03** House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB258ER)
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 804 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ab2ae16-8fcf-4357-aa4c-45db373ba278`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).