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type: "Bill"
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title: "Workers' compensation; Uninsured Employer's Fund, financing tax."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 82"
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citation: "Virginia HB 82 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Workers' Compensation"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gregory D. Habeeb"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2017-12-07"
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last_action: "2018-03-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3f32388-526b-4e6e-8502-505473317100"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB82"
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source_hash: "41608910bacdfdad24123b5c02a673c8f5d4d3ac171ae1359f7b2635f34be50d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 82 (2018) — Workers' compensation; Uninsured Employer's Fund, financing tax.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB82ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB82ER)
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2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101060D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB82)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **26–13** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **7–5** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Gregory D. Habeeb — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-12-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101060D `introduction`
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- **2017-12-07** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2018-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
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- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
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- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3f32388-526b-4e6e-8502-505473317100`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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