republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-82.md

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Bill	Workers' compensation; Uninsured Employer's Fund, financing tax.	Repeals an enactment clause that provides that the maximum tax rate that may be assessed on insurance carriers or self-insured employers for the purpose of funding workers' compensation benefits that are awarded against uninsured employers from the Uninsured Employer's Fund will revert from 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent on July 1, 2018. Repealing the enactment will maintain the maximum rate at its current level of 0.5 percent.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 82	Virginia HB 82 (2018)	bill	Workers' Compensation	enacted	Gregory D. Habeeb	2	14	5	2017-12-07	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a3f32388-526b-4e6e-8502-505473317100	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB82	41608910bacdfdad24123b5c02a673c8f5d4d3ac171ae1359f7b2635f34be50d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 82 (2018) — Workers' compensation; Uninsured Employer's Fund, financing tax.

Repeals an enactment clause that provides that the maximum tax rate that may be assessed on insurance carriers or self-insured employers for the purpose of funding workers' compensation benefits that are awarded against uninsured employers from the Uninsured Employer's Fund will revert from 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent on July 1, 2018. Repealing the enactment will maintain the maximum rate at its current level of 0.5 percent.

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB82ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101060D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 26–13 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 7–5 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gregory D. Habeeb — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101060D introduction
• 2017-12-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-19 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-22 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-01-23 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-28 Signed by President
• 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3f32388-526b-4e6e-8502-505473317100. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).