Virginia Senate Bill 520 (Prefiled Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries or diseases from conditions resulting from repetitive and sustained physical stressors, including repetitive and sustained motions, exertions, posture stresses, contact stresses, vibrations, or noises. The bill provides that such injuries or diseases are covered under the Act and that such coverage does not require that such repetitive or sustained physical stress occurred over a particular time period, provided that the time period over which such physical stress occurred can be reasonably identified.

Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors.

Sen. Angelia Williams Graves [D]

Sen. Stella Pekarsky [D]

2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (8-Y 6-N) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-31	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-22	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-01-22	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (8-Y 6-N)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103836D

SB520 (Carry Over) 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	400	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+sum+SB520
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+ful+SB520+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+oth+SB520F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+vot+S02C0011+SB0520
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+vot+S05C0074+SB0520