Virginia House Bill 156 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption. Expands the presumption that specific types of cancers in firefighters and certain other public safety employees are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act to include kidney cancer and any other type of cancer that results from the inhalation, ingestion, or absorption of a toxic substance. A toxic substance is currently defined as a known or suspected carcinogen, as defined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, that causes, or is suspected to cause, leukemia or pancreatic, prostate, rectal, throat, ovarian, or breast cancer.

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption.

Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]

2010-02-04 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (9-Y 2-N) (Y: 9 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Commerce and Labor
2010-02-04		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (9-Y 2-N)
2010-01-15		House: Assigned C & L sub: #2
2010-01-05		House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2010-01-05		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101662D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	402	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB156
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB156+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+vot+H1402V0006+HB0156