TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-08-19
DATE: 2020-08-19T00:00:00
SESSION: 2020 Special I (20202)
CHAMBER: Senate
SOURCE_API: https://lis.virginia.gov/Calendar/api/GetDocketsByIdAsync?docketID=15657
COMMITTEE_PAGE: https://lis.virginia.gov/committee-details?committeeId=23&sessionCode=20202

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bills in Committee]
  999. SB5022 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Kiggans
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19 . Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters or other certain employees is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act.
  999. SB5027 - Collective bargaining; law enforcement.
       Patron(s): Newman
       Summary: Collective bargaining; law enforcement. Provides that no county, city, town, or like governmental officer, agent, or governing body is vested with or possesses any authority to recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent of any law-enforcement agency or its employees, or to collectively bargain or enter into any collective bargaining contract with any such union or association or its agents with respect to any matter relating to them or their employment or service. Under current law, beginning May 1, 2021, localities will have the authority to recognize a labo
  999. SB5066 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Saslaw
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19 . Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, and health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The provisions of the bill will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2020.
  999. SB5076 - Public & private employers; paid sick leave to eligible employees that can be used during pandemic.
       Patron(s): Favola
       Summary: Paid sick time. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid sick time that can be used during a pandemic. The bill requires employers to provide all full-time and part-time employees with paid sick time if the Governor has declared a state of emergency in response to a communicable disease of public health threat. The bill provides that such paid sick time is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee has been employed by the employer and does not count toward the employee's paid sick time use or accrual limit. The bill provide
  999. SB5078 - Collective bargaining; law enforcement.
       Patron(s): Stanley
       Summary: Collective bargaining; law enforcement. Provides that no county, city, town, or like governmental officer, agent, or governing body is vested with or possesses any authority to recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent of any law-enforcement agency or its employees, or to collectively bargain or enter into any collective bargaining contract with any such union or association or its agents with respect to any matter relating to them or their employment or service. Under current law, beginning May 1, 2021, localities will have the authority to recognize a labo
  999. SB5085 - Electric utility regulation; triennial review proceeding, emergency investigations, etc.
       Patron(s): Bell
       Summary: Electric utility regulation; triennial review proceeding; emergency investigations; administration of earnings. Directs the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), for Dominion's 2021 triennial review, to administer 100 percent of the earnings that were more than 70 basis points above the utility's most recently approved fair combined rate of return for the test period or periods under review, considered as a whole, to benefit customers. One hundred percent of any such over-earnings not otherwise administered by the Commission pursuant to an emergency investigation, if any, shall be cre
  999. SB5097 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Vogel
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19 . Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, and health care providers are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The provisions of the bill will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2020.
  999. SB5104 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Deeds
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19 . Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, and health care providers is an occupational diseasescompensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The provisions of the bill will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2020.