2025 Regular Session
HB153
Provides relative to work search requirements for unemployment benefits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
Likes
No public reasoning provided.
Dislikes
Removes language "conducting an active search for work" and replaces it with "actively seeking work by conducting no fewer than five work search actions for each week in which he makes a claim for benefits." DELEGATES LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY: "The administrator shall, by regulation, prescribe the actions which shall be considered valid work search actions."
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 5, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 153 FINAL PASSAGE (#180)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
73 yea–24 nay · 7 absent
June 2, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 153 FINAL PASSAGE (#619)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
28 yea–8 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
May 7, 2025 · Senate
Labor & Industrial Relations
March 31, 2025 · House
Labor and Industrial Relations
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 12/31/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Called from the Calendar.
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Senate Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
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Senate Rules suspended.
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (7-4).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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House Prefiled.