---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions."
description: "Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; correctional officers. 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 169"
citation: "Virginia HB 169 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roslyn C. Tyler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-12-26"
last_action: "2020-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd9db60a-7b25-45dc-949e-f244e65ffdd1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB169"
source_hash: "7cc49b5a0c8bc2dbc94825cc91b232c56a85b62938014c7ac8729ba5be9b65d6"
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 HB 169 (2020) — Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumptions.

Workers' compensation; occupational disease presumption; correctional officers. 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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1150)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1150)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB169ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB169ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB169E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB169E)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB169)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB169)
5. **Impact statement from DPB (HB169S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB169S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N) — **95–3** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 7-N) — **90–7** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roslyn C. Tyler — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-12-26** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102696D `introduction`
- **2019-12-26** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB169)
- **2020-01-16** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-21** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-01-23** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-31** Reported from Appropriations with amendment (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-05** Engrossed by House as amended HB169E
- **2020-02-05** Printed as engrossed 20102696D-E
- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N)
- **2020-02-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB169E)
- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-07** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Committee substitute printed 20108456D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB169S1)
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 20108456D-S1
- **2020-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB169S1
- **2020-02-20** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108456D-S1 (91-Y 7-N)
- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 7-N)
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB169ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1150 (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/fd9db60a-7b25-45dc-949e-f244e65ffdd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).