Virginia Senate Bill 897 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-11-30 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; taxicab and executive sedan drivers. Provides that the exclusion from the definition of "employee" within the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act for taxicab or executive sedan drivers who are excluded from taxation under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act is not contingent upon whether evidence of the tax exemption is furnished to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. The measure contains an emergency clause, and its provisions will be effective retroactive to December 31, 2017.

Workers' compensation; taxicab and executive sedan drivers.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2018-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-11-30	Senate	Left in Commerce and Labor
2018-01-29	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 0-N)
2018-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2018-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 18105041D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB897
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB897+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S02C0039+SB0897