2025 bills / H.B. 279
H.B. 279 Earned Wage Access Services Act (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates the Earned Wage Access Services Act, which sets rules for earned wage access services, including defining key terms and requiring providers to register and renew their registration. The Division of Consumer Protection would administer and enforce the act, and violators would face penalties.
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Official description
- defines terms
- enacts provisions related to earned wage access services, including provider registration and renewal
- directs the Division of Consumer Protection to administer and enforce the Earned Wage Access Services Act
- provides penalties for violation
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 279 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 279 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
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 1 no, 4 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 67 yes, 0 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how