2025 bills / H.B. 186
H.B. 186 Wage Payment Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill removes the requirement that an employee leaving a job submit a written demand for final pay, and removes the 15-day written-demand requirement before an employee can sue for unpaid wages. It instead requires an employee who disputes the final payment amount to give the employer notice before starting a legal case.
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Official description
- removes references that require an employee separating from an employer to provide a written demand for payment
- removes the requirement that an employee make a demand in writing 15 days before bringing a suit for wages
- requires that an employee, who disputes the amount an employer pays to the employee upon separation, provide notice to the employer before initiating a legal action
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 186 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 186 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 3 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how