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HB 339 VA
Passed One Chamber

Employee protections; wage and hour, health and safety, and mining safety provisions.

VA · session 2026 · Assembly / House · bill

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Introduced Jan 12, 2026

Latest action (Mar 9, 2026) Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)

Summary

Employee protections; wage and hour, health and safety, and mining safety provisions; federal rules. Requires that, if a federal wage or hour law, federal occupational health and safety law, or federal mine safety law is repealed, revoked, amended, or reinterpreted in any manner that results in the federal protections becoming less stringent or effective, the Commissioner, the Safety and Health Codes Board, or the Department of Energy, respectively, shall promulgate regulations that incorporate the federal law as it existed prior to being repealed, revoked, amended, or newly interpreted.

Sponsor (1)

10 coauthors / cosponsors

Action history (18)

  1. Jan 12, 2026 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102185D · lower
  2. Jan 12, 2026 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce · lower
  3. Jan 19, 2026 Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #2 · lower
  4. Jan 22, 2026 House subcommittee offered · lower
  5. Jan 22, 2026 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) · lower
  6. Jan 27, 2026 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (15-Y 7-N) · lower
  7. Jan 27, 2026 Committee substitute printed 26105908D-H1 · lower
  8. Jan 29, 2026 Read first time · lower
  9. Jan 30, 2026 Read second time · lower
  10. Jan 30, 2026 committee substitute agreed to · lower
  11. Jan 30, 2026 Engrossed by House - committee substitute · lower
  12. Feb 2, 2026 Read third time and passed House (64-Y 35-N 0-A) · lower
  13. Feb 3, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) · upper
  14. Feb 3, 2026 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor · upper
  15. Feb 11, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB339) · lower
  16. Mar 9, 2026 Senate committee offered · upper
  17. Mar 9, 2026 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) · upper
  18. Mar 9, 2026 Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) · upper

Text versions (10)

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

  • Commerce and Labor Amendment · HTML
  • Commerce and Labor Amendment · HTML
  • Labor and Commerce Substitute · PDF
  • Labor and Commerce Substitute · HTML
  • Labor and Commerce Substitute · PDF
  • Labor and Commerce Substitute · HTML
  • Subcommittee #2 Subcommittee Substitute · PDF
  • Subcommittee #2 Subcommittee Substitute · HTML
  • Introduced · PDF
  • Introduced · HTML

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