republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-49.md

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Bill	Nonpayment of wages; investigations.	Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to HB 336.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 49	Virginia SB 49 (2020)	bill		enacted	Lionell Spruill, Sr.	3	23	6	2019-11-18	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/c2d3f6c6-7923-4786-a2f6-ba5d9a1dadf8	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB49	165861599bff11d0efe6ca9010ff70fcf06abe4ef8b8a6faf2f2d1ac59cf2054	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 49 (2020) — Nonpayment of wages; investigations.

Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to HB 336.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB49ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB49) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N) — 54–42 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (14-Y 6-N) — 14–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100694D introduction
• 2019-11-18 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB49)
• 2020-02-03 Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 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 Reported from Labor and Commerce (14-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House (55-Y 42-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N)
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB49ER)
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 205 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2d3f6c6-7923-4786-a2f6-ba5d9a1dadf8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).