Virginia Senate Bill 485 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive an employer's communications conveying an opinion about political matters, as defined in the bill; (ii) as a means of inducing an employee's attendance at such meeting or receipt of such communications; or (iii) because the employee reports a suspected violation of the bill's provisions. The bill permits an employee alleging a violation of the bill's provisions to bring an action in civil court within 90 days after such violation occurs for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief, reinstatement, compensation for lost wages, benefits, and other remuneration, interest, and reasonable attorney fees and costs.

Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters, civil action.

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102604D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	1	28.7:11	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB485
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB485+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB485F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S02V0057+SB0485