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SB1375

Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.

Status:
Passed

Chief Patron:
Dick Saslaw (D)

Session:
2021 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.

Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and correctional officers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill provides that the COVID-19 virus is established by a positive diagnostic test for COVID-19, an incubation period consistent with COVID-19, and signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that require medical treatment and only applies to a person who was diagnosed a person who was diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus on or after July 1, 2021, and whose death or disability caused by infection from the COVID-19 virus occurred on or after July 1, 2021. This bill incorporates SB 1342. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/13/2021 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101733D
  • 01/13/2021 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  • 01/25/2021 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1375)
  • 01/25/2021 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
  • 01/25/2021 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  • 02/03/2021 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/03/2021 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
  • 02/03/2021 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 21104340D-S1
  • 02/03/2021 - Senate: Incorporates SB1342 (Vogel)
  • 02/03/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Read second time
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21104340D-S1
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1375S1
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2021 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/07/2021 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/07/2021 - House: Read first time
  • 02/07/2021 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
  • 02/08/2021 - House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce
  • 02/11/2021 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
  • 02/11/2021 - House: Committee substitute printed 21200130D-H1
  • 02/11/2021 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1375S1)
  • 02/12/2021 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1375H1)
  • 02/15/2021 - House: Read second time
  • 02/16/2021 - House: Read third time
  • 02/16/2021 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 21200130D-H1
  • 02/16/2021 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1375H1
  • 02/16/2021 - House: Passed House with substitute (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 02/16/2021 - House: VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 02/18/2021 - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (7-Y 32-N)
  • 02/19/2021 - House: House insisted on substitute
  • 02/19/2021 - House: House requested conference committee
  • 02/23/2021 - Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/23/2021 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 02/23/2021 - Senate: Senators: Saslaw, Norment, Petersen
  • 02/24/2021 - House: Conferees appointed by House
  • 02/24/2021 - House: Delegates: Hurst, Jones, Kilgore
  • 02/25/2021 - Conference: Amended by conference committee
  • 02/27/2021 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/27/2021 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 02/27/2021 - House: VOTE: Agreed To (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 03/09/2021 - Senate: Enrolled
  • 03/09/2021 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/09/2021 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1375ER)
  • 03/11/2021 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/12/2021 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1375ER)
  • 03/15/2021 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
  • 03/15/2021 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 03/31/2021 - Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
  • 04/07/2021 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
  • 04/07/2021 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
  • 04/07/2021 - House: VOTE: Agree To (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
  • 04/07/2021 - Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
  • 04/07/2021 - Senate: Reenrolled
  • 04/07/2021 - Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB1375ER2)
  • 04/07/2021 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
  • 04/07/2021 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
  • 04/07/2021 - House: Enacted, Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/21)
  • 04/07/2021 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)
  • 04/07/2021 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0526)

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