2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB1951: Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress, anxiety, or depressive disorders, dispatchers.

Legislative Summary

Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder; dispatchers. Allows dispatchers, as defined in the bill, to claim workers' compensation benefits relating to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act if such disorders are incurred as a result of a qualifying event or in the line of duty, as such terms are defined in relevant law. Currently, only law-enforcement officers and firefighters may claim such benefits.

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Bill History

1/6/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101617D
House of Delegates
1/6/2025
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
House of Delegates
1/14/2025
Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2
House of Delegates
1/16/2025
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (7-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
1/21/2025
Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates

Roll Call Votes

Stricken from docket by Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
1/21/2025
22
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (7-Y 0-N)
1/16/2025
7
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
2
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/6/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/6/202513.8 KB