---
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).