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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 247: Building service employees; public contracting.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 247 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Building service employees; public contracting. Primary sponsor: Jeremy McPike (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For example, such local ordinance or resolution may require that successor building service employers retain incumbent employees during a transition period of 90 days. Under the bill, building service employees are those who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of property, services at an airport, or food preparation services at schools. The bill provides that a building service employer that violates the provisions of a local ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to the bill may be subject to a civil action and monetary damages.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jeremy McPikePrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate29
Jennifer BoyskoCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate38

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Finance and Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
  3. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  4. Committee substitute printed 24107144D-S2
  5. Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (8-Y 6-N)
  6. Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  7. Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  8. Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
  9. Committee substitute printed 24106808D-S1
  10. Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
  11. Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
  12. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104539D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source