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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor
Subcommittee Worker's Compensation

Wagner (Chairman), Newman, Puckett

Clerk: Maribeth Turner, Cheryl Law
Staff: Frank Munyan
Date of Meeting: January 21, 2013
Time and Place: Monday, upon adjournment of Commerce & Labor, Senate Room B

S.B. 704 Workers' compensation; disease presumption, corrections officers.

Patron: Puckett

Workers' compensation; disease presumption; corrections officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 65.2-402 and 65.2-402.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases; correctional officers.

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S.B. 727 Workers' compensation; presumptions, members of enforcement division of DMV.

Patron: Carrico

Workers' Compensation; presumptions; members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to those public safety employees who are entitled to presumptions that hypertension, heart disease, and certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 65.2-402 and 65.2-402.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; presumption as to death or disability of members of enforcement division of Department of Motor Vehicles.

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S.B. 774 Workers' compensation; disease presumption, corrections officers.

Patron: Blevins

Workers' compensation; disease presumption; correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that hypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 65.2-402 and 65.2-402.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases; correctional officers.

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S.B. 896 Workers' compensation; off-premises injuries incurred by public safety employees.

Patron: Reeves

Workers' compensation; off-premises injuries incurred by public safety employees. Eliminates, with respect to off-premises injuries incurred by public safety employees, the condition for eligibility for workers' compensation benefits that the nature of an employee's employment exposed the employee to a particular risk of injury that is usually not faced by a member of the public. The measure would eliminate an employer's defense that such an injury was an act of God not covered by the Workers' Compensation Act because the risk of injury was no greater for the employee than for members of the public.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1, relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act; injuries to public safety employees arising out of employment.

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S.B. 915 Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers.

Patron: Ruff

Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. Provides that an injury incurred by a public safety officer that occurs in the course of his employment at a location that is off the premises his regular premises of employment shall be deemed to have arisen out of employment if the injury would not have occurred but for the fact that the conditions and obligations of his employment placed the public safety officer at the location where the injury was incurred.  Such an employee shall not be required to prove (i) that the nature of his employment exposed him to a special, additional, peculiar, or particular risk of injury to which a member of the public is not generally subject or (ii) a causal connection between the conditions under which his employment was required to be performed and the resulting injury.  The measure would eliminate an employer's defense that such an injury was an act of God not covered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. The measure would not apply to injuries incurred prior to July 1, 2013.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1, relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act; injuries to public safety officers arising out of employment.

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S.B. 1126 Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety employees.

Patron: Norment

Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety employees. Provides that a public safety employee who is injured in the course of his employment is not required to prove that the nature of his employment exposed him to a special, additional, peculiar, or particular risk of injury to which a member of the public is not generally subject. The measure further provides that (i) an injured public safety employee is not required to prove a causal connection between the conditions under which his employment was required to be performed and the resulting injury and (ii) the characterization of the causation of such an injury as an act of God shall not be a defense to a claim for compensation under this title.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1, relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act; injuries to public safety employees arising out of employment.

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S.B. 1199 Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers.

Patron: Saslaw

Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. Provides that a public safety officer who is injured in the course of his employment while on duty on a public or private street or highway in the Commonwealth is not required to prove that the nature of his employment exposed him to a special, additional, peculiar, or particular risk of injury to which a member of the public is not generally subject. The measure further provides that such an injured employee is not required to prove a causal connection between the conditions under which his employment was required to be performed and the resulting injury.

BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1, relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act; injuries to public safety officers arising out of employment.

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