---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employee classification; provision of personal protective equipment in response to a disaster."
description: "Employee classification: disaster; personalprotective equipment. Prohibits the consideration, in any determinationregarding whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor,for the purposes of a civil action for employment misclassification,unemployment compensation, and workers' compensation, of the provisionof personal protective equipment by a hiring party to the individualin response to a disaster caused by a communicable disease of publichealth threat for which a state of emergency has been declared."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2134"
citation: "Virginia HB 2134 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amanda E. Batten"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30257fdc-fd38-41db-be2f-ae6ad1a728a5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2134"
source_hash: "7e41283c0ef8ca2f3db87a97c360a9b7ee7d4a8b590a1dbc7645498f0d27bbf9"
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 2134 (2021) — Employee classification; provision of personal protective equipment in response to a disaster.

Employee classification: disaster; personalprotective equipment. Prohibits the consideration, in any determinationregarding whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor,for the purposes of a civil action for employment misclassification,unemployment compensation, and workers' compensation, of the provisionof personal protective equipment by a hiring party to the individualin response to a disaster caused by a communicable disease of publichealth threat for which a state of emergency has been declared.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0448** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0448)
2. **HB2134ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2134ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101448D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2134)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Amanda E. Batten — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101448D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- **2021-01-28** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB2134)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2134ER)
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor-Chapter 448 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30257fdc-fd38-41db-be2f-ae6ad1a728a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).