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| Bill | Employees providing domestic service; definitions, report. | Virginia Minimum Wage Act; domestic service. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons employed in domestic service. The bill requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to convene a work group consisting of representatives from the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Employment Commission, the Workers' Compensation Commission, organizations representing domestic workers, and such other stakeholders as the Secretary of Commerce and Trade deems appropriate to make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, with regard to protecting domestic service employees from workplace harassment and discrimination, providing remedies for such employees for the nonpayment of wages, ensuring the safety and health of such employees in the workplace, and protecting such employees from loss of income as a result of unemployment or employment-related injury by including coverage of such employees in the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 804 | Virginia SB 804 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 804 (2020) — Employees providing domestic service; definitions, report.
Virginia Minimum Wage Act; domestic service. Eliminates the exclusion in the Virginia Minimum Wage Act for persons employed in domestic service. The bill requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to convene a work group consisting of representatives from the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Employment Commission, the Workers' Compensation Commission, organizations representing domestic workers, and such other stakeholders as the Secretary of Commerce and Trade deems appropriate to make recommendations, including any necessary statutory and regulatory changes, with regard to protecting domestic service employees from workplace harassment and discrimination, providing remedies for such employees for the nonpayment of wages, ensuring the safety and health of such employees in the workplace, and protecting such employees from loss of income as a result of unemployment or employment-related injury by including coverage of such employees in the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1147) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB804ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB804S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB804S1 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 8-N) — 13–8 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — 54–44 (pass) · lower
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (34-Y 4-N) — 34–4 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
- John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105005D
introduction - 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2020-02-09 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2020-02-09 Committee substitute printed 20108041D-S1
substitution - 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-11 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
- 2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20108041D-S1
- 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB804S1
- 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-14 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
referral-committee - 2020-02-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2020-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB804S1)
- 2020-02-18 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-02-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- 2020-02-20 Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendments (13-Y 8-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-25 Passed by for the day
- 2020-02-26 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-26 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2020-02-26 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2020-02-26 Passed House with amendments (55-Y 44-N)
passage - 2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
- 2020-02-28 House amendments agreed to by Senate (34-Y 4-N)
- 2020-03-05 Enrolled
- 2020-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB804ER)
- 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-07 Signed by President
- 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
- 2020-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1147 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/892542cc-d99d-4357-9da2-d92afea16871. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).