Virginia Senate Bill 770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-04-08 - Letter sent to the Virginia Chief Workforce Advisor
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2023. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in 2022. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted annually to reflect changes in the statewide average weekly wage. The measure caps the duration of paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year. The bill provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.

Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission to establish.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Ghazala Hashmi [D]	Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]
Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-08	Senate	Letter sent to the Virginia Chief Workforce Advisor
2020-04-08	Senate	Letter sent to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade
2020-02-04	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (16-Y 0-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104823D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
60	2	800	(n/a)	See Bill Text
60	2	819	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB770
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB770+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0143+SB0770