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1999 SESSION

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HB 2724 Workers' Compensation; voluntary payments.

Introduced by: James K. O'Brien, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Voluntary payments. Authorizes employers subject to the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act to voluntarily pay an employee workers’ compensation benefits above and beyond those benefits provided under the Act. The bill stipulates that such payments are not to be treated as affecting or altering any existing right or remedy of an employer or employee under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Workers’ Compensation; voluntary payments. Authorizes employers subject to the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act to voluntarily pay an employee workers’ compensation benefits above and beyond those benefits provided under the Act. The bill stipulates that such payments are not to be treated as affecting or altering any existing right or remedy of an employer or employee under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Workers’ Compensation; voluntary payments. Authorizes employers subject to the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act to voluntarily pay an employee workers’ compensation benefits above and beyond those benefits provided under the Act. The bill stipulates that such payments do not waive any employer rights under the Act, nor do they operate to establish any new employee rights thereunder.