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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' compensation; suitably equipped automobile for incapacitated employee."
+description: "Workers' compensation; suitably equipped automobile for incapacitated employee."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 1201"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1201 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Persons with Disabilities", "Workers' Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4cc3af5-3663-46d2-b32e-fbec62cb7097"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1201"
+source_hash: "6f9ed9428743df41f84a53acbcf0abb62cebb06fa1c2ad7d1466fea422139c06"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 1201 (2017) — Workers' compensation; suitably equipped automobile for incapacitated employee.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0491)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0491)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1201ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1201ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101912D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1201)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **34–5** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101912D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
+- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 491 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4cc3af5-3663-46d2-b32e-fbec62cb7097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+