Bill Text: VA HB280 | 2010 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Fraud to accomplish vote on union organization; person guilty of misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - House: Continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote [HB280 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2010-HB280-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 280 Offered January 13, 2010 Prefiled January 11, 2010 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-210.1, relating to use of fraud or artifice to accomplish vote on union organization. ---------- Patrons-- Albo, Gilbert and Lingamfelter ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-210.1 as follows:

§18.2-210.1 Use of fraud, material artifice, trickery, or deception to accomplish vote on union organization.

Any person who causes or assists in causing a vote to be taken by non-union employees on whether to organize a union by (i) knowingly and intentionally failing to provide full and complete information regarding the consequences of a signature or a vote or an affirmation by another or (ii) fraud, material artifice, trickery, or deception, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.