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2024 SESSION
24101744DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 9.1-801 and 65.2-301.1 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 9.1-801. Public safety officer defined.
As used in this chapter,
the term "public safety officer" includes a
law-enforcement officer of the Commonwealth or any of its political
subdivisions; a correctional officer as defined in § 53.1-1; a correctional
officer employed at a juvenile correctional facility as
the term is defined in § 66-25.3; a jail officer; a
regional jail or jail farm superintendent; a member of any fire company or
department or nonprofit or volunteer emergency medical services agency that has
been recognized by an ordinance or resolution of the governing body of any
county, city, or town of the Commonwealth as an integral part of the official safety
program of such county, city, or town; an arson investigator; a member of the
Virginia National Guard or the Virginia Defense Force while such a member is
serving in the Virginia National Guard or the Virginia Defense Force on
official state duty or federal duty under Title 32 of the United States Code; any
a special agent of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Authority; any a police agent appointed under
the provisions of § 56-353; any a regular or special
conservation police officer who receives compensation from a county, city, or
town or from the Commonwealth appointed pursuant to § 29.1-200; any
a commissioned forest warden appointed pursuant to §
10.1-1135; any a member or employee of the
Virginia Marine Resources Commission granted the power to arrest pursuant to §
28.2-900; any a Department of Emergency
Management hazardous materials officer; any a nonfirefighter regional
hazardous materials emergency response team member;
any an
investigator who is a full-time sworn member of the security division of the
Virginia Lottery; any a full-time sworn member of
the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles meeting the
Department of Criminal Justice Services qualifications, when fulfilling duties
pursuant to § 46.2-217; any a campus police officer
appointed under the provisions of Article 3 (§ 23.1-809 et seq.) of Chapter 8
of Title 23.1; and any a conservation officer of the
Department of Conservation and Recreation commissioned pursuant to § 10.1-115; and a dispatcher as defined in § 56-484.16:1.
§ 65.2-301.1. Public safety officers.
In situations where weather constitutes a particular risk of a public safety officer's employment and where the public safety officer's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, absent a misconduct defense asserted pursuant to § 65.2-306, such injury shall be compensable under this title. As used in this section, "public safety officer" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in § 9.1-801, except that "public safety officer" shall not include dispatchers.