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Labor and Commerce

Tuesday, February 24, 2026·1h 3m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Virginia Senate Labor and Commerce Committee advanced the bulk of its agenda in a single session, reporting out more than twenty bills — including a minimum wage bill and a covenants-not-to-compete bill — while routing six others to subcommittees for further review. Most bills passed with little or no debate, with SB 1 (minimum wage) and SB 508 drawing the narrowest majorities.

Key Actions

·SB 100 – Protection of volunteer emergency responder employeesNo Vote

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Notable Quotes

“I've made the decision that if you have to make a change and you thought you were going to do it in full committee, we're going to give you the opportunity to do it in subcommittee.”

Chair (name not stated in transcript) — The chair explained a procedural change at the opening of the hearing, directing bills requiring even minor modifications to subcommittee rather than handling them in full committee.

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Votes

Send SB 100, SB 240, SB 310, SB 758, SB 257, and SB 250 to respective subcommitteesPassed
Remove SB 693 from the table and refer to Subcommittee 1Passed
Report SB 170 and refer to AppropriationsPassed
Report SB 1Passed
Report SB 255Passed
Report SB 376/377 [UNCLEAR]Passed
Report SB 407Passed
Report SB 423Passed
Report SB 487Passed
Report SB 497Passed
Report SB 505Passed
Report SB 508Passed
Report SB 759 and refer to AppropriationsPassed
Adopt technical amendment to title of SB 5Passed
Report SB 5 as amendedPassed
Report SB 25Passed
Report SB 252Passed
Report SB 254Passed
Report SB 267 and refer to AppropriationsPassed
Conform SB 288 to House Bill 1092Passed
Report SB 288 as substitutePassed
Report SB 327 substitutePassed
Report SB 516 as substitutePassed
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TranscriptPreview
Ladies and gentlemen, the committee will be at ease, Will come to order. First, I'd like to apologize to everyone who was here waiting, something that has never happened before. We have our agenda all set up and I think almost 10 people came to me with, I've got one thing that I need to change. Could we just do it in full committee? And then someone else asked could I just do it in full until we have a long list? And so what we're going to do is just move those bills that need just a little thing done to it to a subcommittee. Other than that, we're going to have a very, very long full committee. And it's something that we never do. But when someone says just this time, just one little change, and then those one little changes become a few more. So I've made the decision that if you have to make a change and you thought you were going to do it in full committee, we're going to give you the opportunity to do it in subcommittee. Okay. All right, let's see if I can get this list. I'm going to ask our…
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