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Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in considering the prospective employee for employment; (iii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in determining the wages or salary the prospective employee is to be paid upon hire; (iv) refusing to interview, hire, employ, or promote or otherwise retaliating against a prospective or current employee for not providing wage or salary history or requesting a wage or salary range; (v) failing or refusing to disclose in each public and internal posting for each job, promotion, transfer, or other employment opportunity the wage, salary, or wage or salary range; and (vi) failing to set a wage or salary range in good faith. The bill establishes a cause of action for an aggrieved prospective employee or employee and provides that an employer that violates such prohibitions is liable to the aggrieved prospective employee or employee for statutory damages between $1,000 and $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater, reasonable attorney fees and costs, and any other legal and equitable relief as may be appropriate.
Introduced
Jan 9, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB215)
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB215ER)
Enrolled
Signed by President
House amendment agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Floor offered Delegate Maldonado Amendment
Passed House with amendment (68-Y 29-N 0-A)
Engrossed by House as amended
Delegate Maldonado Floor amendment agreed to
Read third time
Passed by temporarily
Read second time
Reported from Labor and Commerce (14-Y 5-N)
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB215)
Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
Commerce and Labor Amendment agreed to
Engrossed by Senate as amended (Voice Vote)
Read second time
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Senate committee offered
Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (7-Y 6-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB215)
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100773D
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Jennifer B. Boysko
Scott A. Surovell