republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1218.md

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Bill	L&E; covenants not to compete prohibited, low-wage employees, exceptions, civil penalty.	Labor and employment; covenants not to compete prohibited; exceptions; civil penalty. Provides that, for the purposes of the prohibition in existing law against an employer entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce a covenant not to compete with any low-wage employee, "low-wage employee" includes an employee who, regardless of average weekly earnings, is entitled to overtime compensation under federal law for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. Any employer that violates the bill's provisions is subject to a civil penalty in existing law of $10,000 for each violation.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1218	Virginia SB 1218 (2025)	bill		enacted	Richard H. Stuart	4	33	7	2025-01-08	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/44b06436-9c84-4d63-9198-e1a559c1623a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1218	9ab7dd46f344be7f4bcd795963cc793bc562534a350f996795bcecd7eb1e4ba8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1218 (2025) — L&E; covenants not to compete prohibited, low-wage employees, exceptions, civil penalty.

Labor and employment; covenants not to compete prohibited; exceptions; civil penalty. Provides that, for the purposes of the prohibition in existing law against an employer entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce a covenant not to compete with any low-wage employee, "low-wage employee" includes an employee who, regardless of average weekly earnings, is entitled to overtime compensation under federal law for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. Any employer that violates the bill's provisions is subject to a civil penalty in existing law of $10,000 for each violation.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Commerce and Labor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (49-Y 47-N) — 49–47 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103924D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Committee substitute printed 25106097D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-29 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-30 Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-30 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1218)
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Labor and Commerce (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Passed House (49-Y 47-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1218ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-23 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1218)
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 585 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44b06436-9c84-4d63-9198-e1a559c1623a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).