| VA | HB974 | Veto | Workers' compensation; presumption that certain injuries arose out of employment. Provides that in any claim for workers' compensation, where the employee suffers an unexplained fall in the course of employment, such employee may satisfy the burden o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB241 | Pass | Workers' compensation; notice of right to dispute claim. Requires that when an employee's workers' compensation claim is denied, an employer or insurer shall include in its letter denying benefits a notice that the employee has a right to dispute the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 584 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1418 | Pass | Administrative Process Act; rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Exempts certain rules of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act, provided that the Commission provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 559 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB205 | Pass | Workers' compensation; prompt payment; limitation on claims. Prohibits an employer or workers' compensation carrier from seeking recovery of a payment made to a health care provider for health care services rendered to a claimant unless such recovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177) |
| VA | SB593 | Engross
50% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1300 | Intro
25% | "Occupational disease" definition.Clarifies that for the purpose of worker's compensation claims, an "occupational disease" does not include certain physical conditions resulting from repetitive and sustained physical stressors. "Occupational diseas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB1226 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Removes the provision in the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act requiring that benefits fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB68 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by dispatchers. Allows dispatchers, as defined in the bill, to claim workers' compensation benefits relating to post-traumatic stress disorder under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB274 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability of infertility for firefighters. Provides that firefighters who suffer from infertility are presumed to have developed infertility during the course and scope of employment as a firefighter in cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB531 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB520 | Intro
25% | Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR99 | Pass | Election of a Court of Appeals of Virginia Judge, Circuit Election of a Court of Appeals of Virginia Judge, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a member of the Judicial Inquiry a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ99ER) |
| VA | HR43 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
VOTE: Election (98-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SR21 | Pass | Nominating a person to be elected to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Bill text as passed Senate (SR21ER) |
