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HOUSE BILL NO. 2724 Offered January 21, 1999 A BILL to amend and reenact § 65.2-307 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Workers’ Compensation; voluntary payments. ---------- Patrons-- O'Brien; Senator: Barry ---------- Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 65.2-307 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 65.2-307. Employee's rights under Act exclude all others.

A. The rights and remedies herein granted to an employee when his employer and he have accepted the provisions of this title respectively to pay and accept compensation on account of injury or death by accident shall exclude all other rights and remedies of such employee, his personal representative, parents, dependents or next of kin, at common law or otherwise, on account of such injury, loss of service or death.

B. Notwithstanding this exclusion, nothing in the Act shall bar an employer from voluntarily agreeing to pay an employee compensation above and beyond those benefits provided for in the Act. Such voluntary payments may not be deemed to waive any rights of the employer or to create any new rights on the part of the employee.