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.
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“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.”
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Sign in to subscribeLadies 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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