Workers' Compensation

Passed

P HB1567

Workers' compensation; compensable employees. Provides that those volunteer members of community emergency response teams and volunteer members of medical reserve corps who have been acknowledged as employees by the local governing body or state institution of higher education in which the principal office of their team or corps is located are employees of that local government or state institution for workers' compensation purposes. This bill incorporates HB 1697.
Patron - Cosgrove

P HB1728

Workers' compensation; demonstrator cars; noncompensable injury, disease, or condition. Provides that any injury, disease or condition resulting from the use by an employee of a dealer motor vehicle for commuting to or from work or any other non-work activity is not compensable under workers' compensation. This bill is identical to SB 1215.
Patron - Kilgore

P HB1862

Workers' compensation; professional employer organizations. Authorizes the Workers' Compensation Commission to require a business entity with a controlling interest in or sharing common ownership with any professional employer organization providing services in the Commonwealth to guarantee the performance of all obligations under the Workers' Compensation Act by the non-controlling business entity, including payment of benefits.
Patron - Morgan

P HB1863

Workers' compensation; failure to insure payment; penalty. Provides for imposition of civil and criminal penalties on employers that fail to insure payment of workers' compensation to their employees, and for imposition of civil penalties on employers that fail to comply with requirements governing professional employer organizations.
Patron - Morgan

P HB2462

Workers' compensation. Provides that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits who participate in the work experience component of the Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare Program, and are not eligible for Medicaid, will be employees of the Commonwealth for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act. Such recipients will not be eligible for wage replacement or death benefits.
Patron - Nixon

P HB2700

Workers' compensation; coverage for first responders during state of emergency. Provides that injuries to first responders incurred while traveling from home or another location outside a work location to that work location are deemed to be within the scope of employment for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act, if a state of emergency is in effect.
Patron - Sickles

P HB2775

Limitations on workers' compensation claims; September 11, 2001, rescue and relief workers. Allows an employee suffering from a disease directly attributable to 9/11 rescue and relief efforts two years after the employee first learns of the disease diagnosis within which to file claim.
Patron - Brink

P SB1035

Workers' compensation; extended coverage for members of the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, and naval militia. Provides that a claim for workers' compensation shall be deemed to be in the course of employment with the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force, or naval militia for any member thereof, who, in reacting to an order to report while he is outside an assigned shift or work location, undertakes in direct obedience to a lawful military order travel to his designated place of state active duty.
Patron - Ruff

P SB1215

Failed

F HB1697

F HB1701

Workers' compensation; statute of limitations tolled for injury related to compensable accident. Provides that where the employer has paid medical bills incurred for an injury that is related to a compensable accident but is not referenced in any agreement on compensation for that accident, and the employee's right to file a claim relating to that injury has been thereby prejudiced, the statute of limitations shall be tolled as to such claim until the employee does or should know that the claim has been denied. Current law provides similar protections relating to the compensable accident itself.
Patron - Kilgore

F HB2014

Workers' compensation; self-insurance; grocery stores. Provides that for the purposes of calculating a debt/equity ratio to assess an employer's capacity to self-insure, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall consider the value of any physical facilities, appliances, or inventory owned by a grocery store.
Patron - Griffith

F HB2056

Workers' compensation. Limits the benefits that aliens not eligible for lawful employment may receive under the Workers' Compensation Act to medical benefits.
Patron - Byron

F HB2309

Workers' compensation; definition of hypertension. Defines hypertension to include stroke, cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or any cerebral vascular event.
Patron - Griffith

F SB1291

Workers' compensation; definition of hypertension. Defines hypertension to include stroke when hypertension is the primary risk factor for the stroke.
Patron - Edwards

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