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HOUSE BILL NO. 1264 Offered January 22, 1996 A BILL to amend and reenact § 65.2-505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; successive injuries in different employments. ---------- Patrons-- Wilkins, Albo, Bryant, Landes and Way; Senator: Martin ---------- Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 65.2-505 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 65.2-505. Injuries in different employments or at a time prior to employment; injury to employee with disability.

If an employee has a permanent disability or has sustained a permanent injury in service in the armed forces of the United States or in another employment other than that at a time prior to the employment in which he receives a subsequent permanent injury by accident, such as specified in § 65.2-503, he shall be entitled to compensation only for the degree of incapacity which would have resulted from the later accident if the earlier disability or injury had not existed, regardless of whether the earlier disability or injury had reached a compensable level at the time of employment.