2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

SB1301: Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by firefighters, etc.

Legislative Summary

Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that workers' compensation benefits are payable for anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty. The bill also increases from 52 weeks to 500 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that workers' compensation benefits are payable for post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters acting in the line of duty.

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Bill History

1/9/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-09-2025 25101214D
Senate
1/9/2025
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Senate
1/20/2025
Incorporates SB860(Reeves)
Senate
1/20/2025
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Senate
1/20/2025
Committee substitute printed 25105540D-S1
Senate
1/23/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1301)
Senate
2/5/2025
Left in Finance and Appropriations
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
1/20/2025
15
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/9/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Finance and Appropriations(Senate)

Sponsors

Democrat: 2
Republican: 1

Primary Sponsor

Jeremy McPike
Jeremy McPike
Democrat

Documents

Comm Sub
Bill Text1/21/202513.1 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/9/202513.2 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/23/2025117.5 KB