Subject Workers' Compensation | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB839 | Local boundaries for law-enforcement purposes. Provides that localities may designate mutually agreed-upon boundary lines between contiguous localities for purposes of organizing 911 dispatch and response, determining territorial jurisdiction in cri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0775) |
| VA | HB2216 | Local boundaries for law-enforcement purposes. Provides that localities may designate mutually agreed-upon boundary lines between contiguous localities for purposes of organizing 911 dispatch and response and clarifying issues related to coverage und... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594) |
| VA | HB2174 | Workers' compensation; awards of compensation. Provides that wages paid to an employee who is physically unable to return to his pre-injury work due to a compensable injury and who is provided work within his capacity at a wage equal to or greater t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
| VA | SB896 | Workers' compensation; injuries incurred by public safety employees. States that an injury to a public safety officer in situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of his employment shall be compensable where the injury arose out of and i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| VA | HB1305 | Workers' compensation; injuries presumed to be in course of employment. Revises the provision enacted in 2011 that created a presumption, in the absence of a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, that an injury is work related if an employee is ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169) |
| VA | HB1347 | Workers' compensation; injuries incurred by public safety officers. States that an injury to a public safety officer in situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of his employment shall be compensable where the injury arose out of and in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174) |
| VA | HB1733 | Workers' compensation; peer review of services rendered by physicians. Allows any party to a dispute regarding medical treatment or services that has been referred to a peer review committee to have the matter remanded to the Workers' Compensation Co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0204) |
| VA | HB2018 | Workers' compensation coverage for trainees at criminal justice training academies. Clarifies that any individual who receives training at a criminal justice training academy is not an employee of the academy. The academy is not required to provide w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| VA | SR47 | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Bill text as passed Senate (SR47ER) |
| VA | HB1656 | Workers' Compensation Commission; location of offices. Eliminates a requirement that the offices of the Workers' Compensation Commission be located in a building in the City of Richmond. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014) |
| VA | HR220 | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HJR971 | Election of a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ971ER) |
| VA | SB727 | Workers' compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB1612 | Workers' compensation; fee schedule for medical care services and prompt payment. Limits the pecuniary liability of an employer for medical, surgical, and hospital services provided on or after October 1, 2014, pursuant to the Virginia Workers' Compe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1636 | Workers' compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1998 | Food stamps program. Updates obsolete references to Food Stamps program and requires the State Board of Social Services to establish broad-based categorical eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2206 | Workers' compensation insurance; payments to providers of health care services. Provides that the rate of payment for medical, surgical, and hospital services provided under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act may be (i) established in an agreemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR683 | Study; Workers' Compensation Commission to study expanding occupational disease presumptions to include correctional officers; report. Requests the Workers' Compensation Commission to study the impact of providing correctional officers the benefits o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1572 | Workers' compensation insurance; experience modification factor. Prohibits the use of an accident in determining an insured employer's experience modification factor or level, for purposes of workers' compensation insurance, if the accident is the fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2160 | Workers' compensation; medical benefits. Establishes a one-year period of limitations on actions by a health care provider for payment of charges for services rendered under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. The period starts to run on the late... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB704 | Workers' compensation; disease presumption; corrections officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupational... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB774 | Workers' compensation; disease presumption; correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupationa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB915 | Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. Provides that an injury incurred by a public safety officer that occurs in the course of his employment at a location that is off the regular premises of his employment shall be deemed to hav... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB1199 | Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. Provides that a public safety officer who is injured in the course of his employment while on duty on a public or private street or highway in the Commonwealth is not required to prove that t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB1126 | Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety employees. Provides that a public safety employee who is injured in the course of his employment is not required to prove that the nature of his employment exposed him to a special, additional, peculia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB327 | Workers' Compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitl... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB1190 | Workers' compensation; pharmacy providers. Provides that neither an employer nor his agent shall restrict an injured employee's choice of pharmacy providers pursuant to a workers' compensation claim. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
