Bill Text: VA HB1347 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Workers' compensation; weather as risk of public safety officer's employment,injuries incurred.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174) [HB1347 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-HB1347-Enrolled.html

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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1 relating to workers' compensation; weather as a risk of a public safety officer's employment. [H 1347] Approved

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1 as follows:

§65.2-301.1. Public safety officers.

In situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of a public safety officer's employment and where the public safety officer's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, absent a misconduct defense asserted pursuant to §65.2-306, such injury shall be compensable under this title. As used in this section, "public safety officer" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in §9.1-801.