Bill Text: VA SB896 | 2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered

---

Bill Title: Workers' compensation; weather as risk of public safety officer's employment,injuries incurred.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-16 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) [SB896 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-SB896-Chaptered.html

---

CHAPTER 458 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1, relating to workers' compensation; weather as a risk of a public safety officer's employment. [S 896] Approved March 16, 2013

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 65.2-301.1 as follows:

§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.