Virginia Senate Bill 239 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-01 - Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party. Expands the type of persons against whom an injured employee may bring a cause of action to recover damages for injury, occupational disease, or death to include statutory coemployees. The measure provides that a determination of whether a person is a stranger to the employer's work shall be made without regard to whether the person was performing work that is part of the trade, business, or occupation of the injured employee's employer. The measure affirms that an "other party" shall not include the injured employee's employer or a fellow employee.

Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-01	Senate	Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102911D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	309	(n/a)	See Bill Text
65	2	800	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB239
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB239+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S02V0035+SB0239