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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.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Commerce and Labor Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Senator Perry Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce — 15–6 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 63–35 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — 8–6 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 21–19 (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).