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SB49

Nonpayment of wages; investigations.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Lionell Spruill, Sr (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Nonpayment of wages; investigations.

Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to HB 336. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 11/18/2019 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100694D
  • 11/18/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 01/14/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB49)
  • 02/03/2020 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
  • 02/05/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/06/2020 - Senate: Read second time and engrossed
  • 02/06/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/06/2020 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/13/2020 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/13/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/13/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
  • 02/18/2020 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (14-Y 6-N)
  • 02/20/2020 - House: Read second time
  • 02/21/2020 - House: Read third time
  • 02/21/2020 - House: Passed House (55-Y 42-N)
  • 02/21/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Enrolled
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB49ER)
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB49ER)
  • 02/25/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/03/2020 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
  • 03/03/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
  • 03/10/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 205 (effective 7/1/20)
  • 03/10/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0205)

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