HB 238 — Minimum wage and overtime wages; payment, of wages, misclassification of workers, civil actions.
VA 20261 session
Labor and employment; payment of wages; minimum wage and overtime wages; misclassification of workers; prevailing wage rate; civil actions. Provides that an employer that violates provisions relating to minimum wage, overtime wages provisions, the misclassification of workers, or the prevailing wage rate is subject to civil actions for the applicable remedies, damages, or other relief available in an action brought pursuant to the civil action provisions currently available for the nonpayment of wages. Such provisions currently available provide that an employee may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover payment of the wages, and the court is required to award the wages owed, an additional equal amount as liquidated damages, plus prejudgment interest thereon, and reasonable attorney fees and costs. Under current law, if the court finds that the employer knowingly failed to pay wages to an employee, the court is required to award the employee an amount equal to triple the amount of wages due and reasonable attorney fees and costs. The bill also prohibits an employer from taking certain retaliatory actions against an employee because the employee reports any information or allegation in good faith that, if true, amounts to a violation of any federal or state law or regulation to a supervisor, manager, or officer, or to any governmental body or law-enforcement official, including a report made in the ordinary course of the employee's employment, regardless of whether such report refers to a particular law or regulation.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (14)
- Alfonso H. Lopez (D, VA) — sponsor
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Betsy B. Carr (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Phil M. Hernandez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Adele Y. McClure (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Leslie Chambers Mehta (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kimberly Pope Adams (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (77)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfonso H. Lopez (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Betsy B. Carr (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Kimberly Pope Adams (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Leslie Chambers Mehta (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Phil M. Hernandez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no