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Workers' Compensation

Passed

P HB 1635

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; police officers of the Norfolk Airport Authority. Establishes a presumption that hypertension or heart disease causing the death or disability of an officer of the police department established and maintained by the Norfolk Airport Authority is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. This bill is identical to SB 747.
Patron - Alexander

P HB 2294

Workers' compensation; government employees. Classifies policemen, firefighters, sheriffs and their deputies, and certain other individuals who are generally deemed to be employees of their employing locality for purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, as employees of the Commonwealth while rendering aid outside of the Commonwealth pursuant to a state-approved request under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
Patron - McClellan

P SB 747

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; police officers of the Norfolk Airport Authority. Establishes a presumption that hypertension or heart disease causing the death or disability of an officer of the police department established and maintained by the Norfolk Airport Authority is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. This bill is identical to HB 1635.
Patron - Miller

P SB 897

Workers' compensation; infectious disease presumption. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to those public safety employees who are entitled to the presumption that certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act.
Patron - Deeds

P SB 1169

Workers' Compensation; offset for Longshore payments. Authorizes an employer to deduct, from payments made as compensation under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to an injured employee, any payments that are made to the injured worker under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. This bill contains an emergency clause and will take effect upon its passage.
Patron - Stolle

Failed

F HB 2219

Workers' compensation; alternative dispute resolution. Authorizes an employer primarily engaged in the construction business and a collective bargaining representative of its employees, with which the employer has a signatory agreement, to negotiate a dispute resolution system, which may include mediation and binding arbitration. The system would be an alternative to dispute resolution procedures in the Workers' Compensation Act. Such agreements may also address the use of an agreed list of health care providers for treatment and examinations, light duty and return-to-work programs, and vocational rehabilitation or retraining. Settlements must be approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission. Arbitration decisions may be reviewed in the same manner as decisions of deputy commissioners.
Patron - Amundson

F HB 2428

Workers' compensation; family members of public safety personnel. Requires the employer of a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, police officer, or other specified public safety personnel, who is entitled to the presumption that his hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, or HIV is an occupational disease, to furnish medical care under the provisions of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to a member of the immediate family of such person if the person unintentionally transmitted the infectious disease to his family member.
Patron - Albo

F HB 2688

Workers' compensation; benefits paid to unauthorized aliens; penalties. Makes an employer, rather than the employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier, liable for payment of workers' compensation benefits payable to an unauthorized alien. In addition, an employer is required to promptly reimburse a third party that has paid benefits to an unauthorized alien for payments it has made to the injured alien. An employer that verified the work authorization status of the injured worker, through use of the Basic Pilot Program operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security, obtained certain employment eligibility verification documentation, or is exempt from compliance with federal employment verification procedures under federal law, is exempt from these provisions. In addition, if an unauthorized alien who is eligible for disability is inadmissible to the United States under federal immigration law, the payor of the disability benefits shall require the unauthorized alien to present himself in person at a bank or financial institution located within a foreign country before receiving disability payments. A person violating these provisions is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor and subject to a civil penalty of $25,000.
Patron - Reid

F HB 2952

Medical records; fees for copying. Provides that the provisions that control the fees that may be charged for medical records in civil cases also apply with respect to Workers' Compensation Act proceedings.
Patron - Kilgore

F SB 903

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; police officers of the Norfolk Airport Authority. Establishes a presumption that hypertension or heart disease causing the death or disability of an officer of the police department established and maintained by the Norfolk Airport Authority is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act.
Patron - Rerras

F SB 979

Workers' compensation; panel of physicians. Provides that if an employer fails to furnish an injured employee with a panel of at least three physicians from which he may select an attending physician within 30 days after an accident, then at the request of the employee, the employer shall on one occasion furnish such a panel, from which the employee may select an attending physician.
Patron - Edwards

F SB 1013

Workers' compensation; alternative dispute resolution. Authorizes an employer primarily engaged in the construction business and a collective bargaining representative of its employees, with which the employer has a signatory agreement, to negotiate a dispute resolution system, which may include mediation and binding arbitration. The system would be an alternative to dispute resolution procedures in the Workers' Compensation Act. Such agreements may also address the use of an agreed list of health care providers for treatment and examinations, light duty and return-to-work programs, and vocational rehabilitation or retraining. Settlements must be approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission. Arbitration decisions may be reviewed in the same manner as decisions of deputy commissioners.
Patron - Saslaw

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