Virginia Senate Bill 646 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-02-07 - Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits; misconduct does not include refusing COVID-19 vaccine. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Employment Commission determining if an individual was separated or partially separated from employment for misconduct and would be disqualified for unemployment benefits, the term "misconduct" does not include an employee's refusal to receive or receive in part any primary series or booster shot of a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.

Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits, etc.

Sen. John Cosgrove [R]

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]

2022-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-07	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
2022-01-28	Senate	Assigned C&L sub: Labor and Employment
2022-01-17	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2022-01-17	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 22103655D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
60	2	618	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB646
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB646+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB646F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S02V0070+SB0646