Virginia HB 615: Minimum wage; increases to $10.10 per hour effective January 1, 2021, etc.

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20101615D

HOUSE BILL NO. 615 

Offered January 8, 2020 

Prefiled January 6, 2020 

A BILL to amend and reenact �� 40.1-28.9 and 40.1-28.10 of the 
 Code of Virginia, relating to the minimum wage. 
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Patrons-- Plum, Tyler and Hope; Senator: Boysko 

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Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That �� 40.1-28.9 and 40.1-28.10 of the Code of Virginia 
 are amended and reenacted as follows:

� 40.1-28.9. Definitions; determining wage of tipped employee.

A. As used in this article:

"Employee" includes any individual employed by an 
 employer, except the following:

1. Any person employed as a farm laborer or farm employee;

2. Any person employed in domestic service or in or about a 
 private home or in an eleemosynary institution primarily supported by public 
 funds;

3. Any person engaged in the activities of an educational, 
 charitable, religious, or 
 nonprofit organization where the relationship of employer-employee does not, in 
 fact, exist, or 
 where the services rendered to such organizations are organization is on a voluntary 
 basis;

4. Caddies on golf courses;

5. Traveling salesmen or outside salesmen working on a 
 commission basis; taxicab drivers and operators;

6. Any person under the age of 18 in the employ of his father, mother parent or legal guardian;

7. Any person confined in any penal or corrective institution 
 of the State 
 Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions or 
 admitted to a state hospital or training center operated by the Department of 
 Behavioral Health and Developmental Services;

8. Any person employed by a summer camp for boys, girls, or 
 both boys and girls;

9. Any person under the age of 16, regardless of by whom 
 employed;

10. Any person who normally works and is paid based on the 
 amount of work done;

11. Any person whose employment 
 is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended;

12. Any 
 person whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental 
 illness, or intellectual disability;

13. 12. Students participating in a 
 bona fide educational program;

14. 13. Any person employed by an 
 employer who that does not have four or 
 more persons employed at any one time;, provided that husbands, wives the spouse, sons, daughters children, and parents of the an 
 individual employer shall not be counted in determining the 
 number of persons employed;

15. 14. Any person who is less than 
 18 years of age and who is currently enrolled on a full-time basis in any 
 secondary school, institution of higher education, 
 or trade school, provided that the 
 person is not employed more than 20 hours per week;

16. 15. Any person