Virginia Senate Bill 565 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-01 - Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Expands the current list of diseases that are presumed to be an occupational disease compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if contracted by firefighters and certain officers to include any malignancy or chronic medical condition. The claimant is required to have had an exposure to a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty. The definition of "toxic substance" is expanded to include a substance that causes, or is suspected to cause, a chronic medical condition.

Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-01	Senate	Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 0-N)
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102391D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	402	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB565
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB565+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S02V0041+SB0565