Virginia House Bill 1848 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 41-1)
Status: Passed on February 25 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-02-25 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of disability. Adds discrimination on the basis of disability as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill also requires employers, defined in the bill, to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical and mental impairments of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, if necessary to assist such person in performing a particular job, unless the employer can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. The bill also prohibits employers from taking any adverse action against an employee who requests or uses a reasonable accommodation, from denying employment or promotion opportunities to an otherwise qualified applicant or employee because such employer will be required to make reasonable accommodation to the applicant or employee, or from requiring an employee to take leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided to the known limitations related to the disability. Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of disability. Adds discrimination on the basis of disability as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill also requires employers, defined in the bill, to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical and mental impairments of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, if necessary to assist such person in performing a particular job, unless the employer can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. The bill also prohibits employers from taking any adverse action against an employee who requests or uses a reasonable accommodation, from denying employment or promotion opportunities to an otherwise qualified applicant or employee because such employer will be required to make reasonable accommodation to the applicant or employee, or from requiring an employee to take leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided to the known limitations related to the disability.

Virginia Human Rights Acts; adds discrimination on the basis of disability.

Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Sen. Danica Roem [D]
Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Alex Askew [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Del. David Bulova [D]
Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. Mark Cole [R]
Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. C.E. Hayes [D]
Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Sally Hudson [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]
Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]
Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Martha Mugler [D]	Del. Michael Mullin [D]
Del. Candi Mundon King [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]
Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Don Scott [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]	Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]
Del. Vivian Watts [D]	Del. Rodney Willett [D]

2021-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-22 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-19 - House - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-25		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)
2021-02-25		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/21)
2021-02-19		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
2021-02-19	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
2021-02-18	House	Signed by Speaker
2021-02-17	Senate	Signed by President
2021-02-17	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1848ER)
2021-02-17	House	Enrolled
2021-02-15	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-15	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-10	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
2021-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
2021-01-25	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2021-01-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2021-01-22	House	VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2021-01-22	House	Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
2021-01-21	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1848H1
2021-01-21	House	Committee substitute agreed to 21102987D-H1
2021-01-21	House	Read second time
2021-01-20	House	Read first time
2021-01-19	House	Committee substitute printed 21102987D-H1
2021-01-19	House	Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2021-01-14	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
2021-01-12	House	Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
2021-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2021-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101176D

HB1848 (Carry Over) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3902	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3905	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3910	(n/a)	See Bill Text
51	5	41	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1848
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1848+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1848H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1848ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0012+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB1848FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB1848FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H1101C0001+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H11C0033+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HC1014+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S12C0115+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S12V0021+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0014HB1848+HB1848
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0020HB1848+HB1848