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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions, correctional officers, etc."
+description: "Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions. Adds correctional officers and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that certain infectious diseases are compensable occupational diseases. The presumption does not apply to correctional officers and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles who were diagnosed with such infectious diseases before July 1, 2020."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 345"
+citation: "Virginia SB 345 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John J. Bell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1357e9ea-4319-4de0-9e9d-0597051ba6d8"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB345"
+source_hash: "c909ad9e220e8fa2f9cea22cd2b5abb079d3bcea3c1304dfe86081587035f983"
+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 345 (2020) — Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions, correctional officers, etc.
+
+Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions. Adds correctional officers and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption that certain infectious diseases are compensable occupational diseases. The presumption does not apply to correctional officers and full-time sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles who were diagnosed with such infectious diseases before July 1, 2020.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1152)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1152)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB345ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB345ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB345)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB345)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Appropriations with amendment (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John J. Bell — primary (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104974D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB345)
+- **2020-01-13** Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-13** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-25** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-02-28** Reported from Appropriations with amendment (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2020-03-04** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2020-03-04** Passed House with amendment (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-05** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB345ER)
+- **2020-03-12** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
+- **2020-03-17** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1152 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1357e9ea-4319-4de0-9e9d-0597051ba6d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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