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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 1848 Virginia Human Rights Act; adds discrimination on the basis of disability.
Introduced by: Mark D. Sickles | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of disability. Adds discrimination on the basis of disability as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill also requires employers, defined in the bill, to make reasonable accommodation to the known physical and mental impairments of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, if necessary to assist such person in performing a particular job, unless the employer can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. The bill also prohibits employers from taking any adverse action against an employee who requests or uses a reasonable accommodation, from denying employment or promotion opportunities to an otherwise qualified applicant or employee because such employer will be required to make reasonable accommodation to the applicant or employee, or from requiring an employee to take leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided to the known limitations related to the disability.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101176D pdf
- 01/19/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21102987D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/17/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1848ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101176D
- 01/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/12/21 House: Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
- 01/14/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/21 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21102987D-H1
- 01/20/21 House: Read first time
- 01/21/21 House: Read second time
- 01/21/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21102987D-H1
- 01/21/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1848H1
- 01/22/21 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/21 House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/21 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/17/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1848ER)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/18/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/19/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
- 02/19/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
- 02/25/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/21)
- 02/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)