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Bill Workers' compensation; employer's lien, third party actions. Requires that any arbitration proceeding regarding the exercise of an employer's right of subrogation to an employee's claim against a third party shall be limited solely to arbitrating the amount and validity of the employer's lien and shall not affect the employee's rights in any way. Such arbitration shall not be held unless (i) any contested expenses remaining have been submitted to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) for a determination of their validity and the Commission has made such determination of validity prior to the commencement of the arbitration; (ii) prior to the commencement of such arbitration the employer has provided the injured employee and his attorney, if any, with an itemization of the expenses associated with the lien that is the subject of the arbitration; (iii) upon receipt of the itemization of the lien, the employee shall have 21 days to provide a written objection to any expenses included in the lien to the employer, and if the employee does not do so any objections to the lien to be arbitrated shall be deemed waived; and (iv) the employer shall have 14 days after receipt of the written objection to notify the employee of any contested expenses that the employer does not agree to remove from the lien, and if the employer does not do so any itemized expense objected to by the employee shall be deemed withdrawn and not included in the arbitration. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 1175 Virginia SB 1175 (2017)
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Virginia SB 1175 (2017) — Workers' compensation; employer's lien, third party actions.

Requires that any arbitration proceeding regarding the exercise of an employer's right of subrogation to an employee's claim against a third party shall be limited solely to arbitrating the amount and validity of the employer's lien and shall not affect the employee's rights in any way. Such arbitration shall not be held unless (i) any contested expenses remaining have been submitted to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (the Commission) for a determination of their validity and the Commission has made such determination of validity prior to the commencement of the arbitration; (ii) prior to the commencement of such arbitration the employer has provided the injured employee and his attorney, if any, with an itemization of the expenses associated with the lien that is the subject of the arbitration; (iii) upon receipt of the itemization of the lien, the employee shall have 21 days to provide a written objection to any expenses included in the lien to the employer, and if the employee does not do so any objections to the lien to be arbitrated shall be deemed waived; and (iv) the employer shall have 14 days after receipt of the written objection to notify the employee of any contested expenses that the employer does not agree to remove from the lien, and if the employer does not do so any itemized expense objected to by the employee shall be deemed withdrawn and not included in the arbitration. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0081) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1175ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104602D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101049D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 950 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 150 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor — 210 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 390 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)
  • Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101049D introduction
  • 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2017-01-26 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-01-26 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2017-01-26 Committee substitute agreed to 17104602D-S1
  • 2017-01-26 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1175S1
  • 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
  • 2017-02-09 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-10 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-10 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2017-02-13 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-13 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-13 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-14 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
  • 2017-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
  • 2017-02-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 81 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80ad4cf5-3202-4b5f-88ca-44b002e8c69e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).