The Virginia House Labor and Commerce Committee acted on 23 Senate bills, conforming, reporting, tabling, or passing by the majority of them to align with previously passed House companions. The session's most contested items — SB 28, SB 161, SB 430, and SB 693 — each drew divided votes of 14 to 6, while a cluster of unanimous or near-unanimous votes reflected broad bipartisan agreement on most measures.
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Delegate Cousins asked what the amendments were before the vote, prompting Chair to detail three specific line amendments from Senator Bagby striking references to 'institution of higher education.' After the vote, Cousins raised a question about whether the bill should be reported 'with amendments,' and Chair clarified that the committee had accepted the Senate version of the bill rather than conforming the Senate version to the House version.
“It's similar to House Bill 275 by Delegate Rasool which reported out of labor and Commerce 22 to 0. There's a very few little differences. It adds a separate exception for children 16 years of age or older to participate in apprenticeship and culinary and it with specific requirements and it does not amend the barbershop cosmic exception.”
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Sign in to subscribeTwo minutes. We have a few administrative. Oh, just a moment. I'm gonna. We're gonna ask the clerk to open the roll so we can mark our. And the clerk shall close the roll. We do have a quorum. We have a few administrative things that we need to take care of. First. Senate Bill 160 needs to be re referred to public safety. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. We have three bills that are by for the day. I'd like to do them in a block. Senate Bill 164, Senate Bill 240 and Senate Bill 402. Is there a motion that improperly moved and seconded that these bills are by for the day? All right. Now we're going to begin our docket for today. And we began with Senate Bill 10. Patriot is Sudelen. Is there a motion? Just one minute. It's similar to House Bill 275 by Delegate Rasool which reported out of labor and Commerce 22 to 0. There's a very few little differences. It adds a separate exception for children 16 years of age or older to participate in apprenticeship and culinary and it with specific requirements and it does not amend the barbershop…
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