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Bill Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers. Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemption from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 20. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 SB 121 Virginia SB 121 (2026)
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Virginia SB 121 (2026) — Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees, temporary foreign workers.

Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemption from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 20.

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 Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senator Perry Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed R — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 105 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Labor and Commerce — 156 (pass) · lower
  • H VOTE: — 6335 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — 86 (pass) · upper
  • Passage R — 2119 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)
  • Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100563D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2026-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
  • 2026-02-02 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 6-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-11 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-12 Rules suspended
  • 2026-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
  • 2026-02-12 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-02-13 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-02-13 Passed by for the day
  • 2026-02-16 Floor substitute printed 26108041D-S1 (Perry)
  • 2026-02-16 Commerce and Labor Amendment rejected amendment-failure
  • 2026-02-16 Floor offered Senator Perry Substitute
  • 2026-02-16 Reading of substitute waived (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-02-16 Senator Perry Substitute agreed to (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-02-16 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
  • 2026-02-24 Placed on Calendar
  • 2026-02-24 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-02-24 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
  • 2026-02-26 Reported from Labor and Commerce (15-Y 6-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-03-02 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-03-03 Read third time reading-3
  • 2026-03-03 Passed House (63-Y 35-N 0-A) passage
  • 2026-03-09 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-03-09 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB121ER) passage
  • 2026-03-09 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB121)
  • 2026-03-09 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2026-03-09 Signed by President passage
  • 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 358 (effective 1/1/2027) executive-signature
  • 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53263173-27af-4f92-8a6c-d45bb9a4c4d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).