Virginia House Bill 2524 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Nonpayment of wages; private action. Provides that an employee has a private cause of action against an employer who fails to pay wages. The measure provides that if the court finds that the employer knowingly failed to pay the wages, it shall also award the employee reasonable attorney fees and other costs. If the court finds that the employer's failure to pay wages was willful and with intent to defraud the employee, the court shall award the employee reasonable attorney fees and other costs plus an additional sum equal to treble the amount of wages due.

Nonpayment of wages; private action.

Del. Ronnie Campbell [R]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Kathy Tran [D]

2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (11-Y 7-N) (Y: 11 N: 7 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2019-02-04	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-02-04	House	Motion to refer to committee agreed to
2019-02-04	House	Read second time
2019-02-03	House	Read first time
2019-01-31	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (11-Y 7-N)
2019-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 1-N)
2019-01-22	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-21	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2019-01-21	House	Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102364D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	1	29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2524
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2524+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1402V0025+HB2524
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H14V0042+HB2524