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2022 SESSION
SB 289 Workers' compensation; anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement, etc.
Introduced by: Bill DeSteph | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Workers' compensation; anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that an anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, as both are defined in the bill, incurred by a law-enforcement officer or firefighter is compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act on the same basis as post-traumatic stress disorder. The bill provides that a mental health professional must diagnose the law-enforcement officer or firefighter as suffering from anxiety disorder or depressive disorder as a result of a qualifying event, as defined in the Code, and includes other conditions for compensability.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101635D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/24/22 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/22 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/07/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 03/08/22 House: Left in Commerce and Energy