Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2021-02-22

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Docket for a Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) committee meeting dated 2021-02-22, listed under the 2021 Special I session, with Richard L. Saslaw (D) as chair and Autumn Green and Thomas Stevens as staff. It lists bills from HB1775 to HB2137 with their patrons and summaries. They cover State Corporation Commission land-record access, ending farm-worker minimum wage exemptions in HB1786, employee protections for medicinal cannabis oil use in HB1862, food delivery platform agreements, the Virginia Overtime Wage Act in HB2063 and paid sick leave in HB2137.

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TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2021-02-22
DATE: 2021-02-22T00:00:00
SESSION: 2021 Special I (20212)
CHAMBER: Senate

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

STAFF: Autumn Green, Thomas Stevens

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bill in Committee]
  999. HB1775 - State Corporation Commission; access to local land records.
       Patron(s): Kilgore
       Summary: State Corporation Commission; access to local land records. Adds the State Corporation Commission to the list of agencies that are exempt from paying fees for remote access to local land records.
  999. HB1786 - Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees.
       Patron(s): Ward
       Summary: Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. 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.
  999. HB1862 - Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil.
       Patron(s): Helmer
       Summary: Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitioner for the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee's diagnosed condition or disease. The bill provides that such prohibition does not (i) restrict an employer's ability to take any adverse employment action for any work impairment caused by the use of cannabis oil or to prohibit possession during work hours; (ii) require an emp
  999. HB1877 - Legal service plans; seller registration.
       Patron(s): Jenkins
       Summary: Legal service plans; seller registration. Provides that a legal services plans seller may offer, advertise, or execute, or cause to be executed by the subscriber, any subscription contract in the Commonwealth if the seller has submitted the seller's information and fees to the legal services organization for which the seller offers subscription contracts. The bill requires the legal services organization to submit the information and fees to the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services within 30 days or receiving such information and fees.
  999. HB1881 - Enterprise zone job creation grants; wage requirements.
       Patron(s): Heretick
       Summary: Enterprise zone job creation grants. Provides that, for purposes of wage requirements for the enterprise zone job creation grant program, the minimum wage shall be the higher of the state minimum wage or the federal minimum wage. The bill also reduces the percentage of the minimum wage that grant eligible jobs must meet. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022.
  999. HB1964 - State Corporation Commission; supervisory merger or transfer of assets of certain credit unions.
       Patron(s): Bagby
       Summary: State Corporation Commission; supervisory merger or transfer of assets of financially unstable credit union. Amends the provisions governing the supervisory merger or transfer of assets of insolvent credit unions to include state credit unions that are financially unstable. The measure removes the requirement that the Commission find that an emergency exists to expedite mergers or sales of assets between credit unions.
  999. HB2062 - Food delivery platforms; agreements required, penalty.
       Patron(s): Willett
       Summary: Food delivery platforms; agreements required; penalty. Prohibits a food delivery platform, as defined in the bill, from submitting orders on behalf of a consumer or arranging for the delivery of an order from a restaurant, as defined in the bill, without first obtaining an agreement with the restaurant expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver food prepared by the restaurant. The bill provides that a violation of such agreement requirement is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
  999. HB2063 - Virginia Overtime Wage Act; overtime compensation employees, definitions, penalties.
       Patron(s): Mullin
       Summary: Virginia Overtime Wage Act; penalties. Requires an employer to compensate certain employees at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay, defined in the bill, for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. The bill includes provisions for calculating overtime premiums due to fire protection and law-enforcement employees by certain public sector employers. The penalties provided by the bill for an employer's failure to pay such overtime wages, including civil and criminal penalties, are the same as currently provided for failing to pay wages
  999. HB2121 - State Corporation Commission; business entities filings.
       Patron(s): Keam
       Summary: State Corporation Commission; business entities filings; Virginia Stock Corporation Act. Aligns provisions governing the filings by nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, and partnerships related to cancellations, abandonments, name restrictions and registered agent resignations, and entity conversions to the provisions governing such filings for stock corporations. The Virginia Stock Corporation Act was comprehensively updated during the 2019 Session of the General Assembly. The bill includes adjustments to the assessment of annual fees after certain entity conve
  999. HB2134 - Employee classification; provision of personal protective equipment in response to a disaster.
       Patron(s): Batten
       Summary: Employee classification: disaster; personal protective equipment. Prohibits the consideration, in any determination regarding whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor, for the purposes of a civil action for employment misclassification, unemployment compensation, and workers' compensation, of the provision of personal protective equipment by a hiring party to the individual in response to a disaster caused by a communicable disease of public health threat for which a state of emergency has been declared.
  999. HB2137 - Paid sick leave; employers to provide to certain employees.
       Patron(s): Guzman
       Summary: Paid sick leave. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide personal care, respite, or companion services to an individual who receives consumer-directed services under the state plan for medical assistance services. Such an employee is eligible for paid sick leave under the bill if the employee is an essential worker and works on average at least 20 hours per week or 90 hours per month. The bill provides for an employee to earn at least one hour of paid sick leave benefit for every 30 hours worked. An employee shall not use more than 40 hours of earned pa

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