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Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees; temporary foreign workers. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
Introduced
Dec 22, 2025
Last Action
Mar 11, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 25 co
Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 35-N 0-A)
Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Commerce and Labor Substitute agreed to
Read third time
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
Committee substitute printed 26108317D-S1
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A)
Read second time
Engrossed by House as amended
committee amendment agreed to
Read first time
Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (15-Y 7-N)
House subcommittee offered
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 1-N)
Assigned HAPP sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
Reported from Labor and Commerce and referred to Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB20)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #2
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100660D
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Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 35-N 0-A)
Adele Y. McClure
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
Atoosa R. Reaser
Kathy K.L. Tran
Elizabeth R. Guzman
Phil M. Hernandez
Jeion A. Ward
Jessica L. Anderson
Bonita G. Anthony
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Nadarius E. Clark
Joshua G. Cole
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Jackie H. Glass
Dan I. Helmer
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Patrick A. Hope
Michelle Lopes Maldonado