republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2022.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation; tolling of statute of limitations."
description: "Provides that if an employer has received notice of an accident resulting in compensable injury to an employee and the employer has paid compensation or wages to such employee during incapacity for work resulting from such injury or the employer has failed to file the report of said accident with the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission or otherwise has under a workers' compensation plan or insurance policy furnished or caused to be furnished medical service to such employee, the statute of limitations applicable to the filing of a claim shall be tolled until the last day for which such payment of compensation or wages or furnishment of medical services is provided and that occurs more than six months after the date of accident. The measure provides that no such payment of wages or workers' compensation benefits or furnishment of medical service occurring after the expiration of the statute of limitations applies to this provision. The measure also provides that (i) if the employer has failed to file a first report, the statute of limitations shall be tolled during the duration thereof until the employer filed the first report of accident and (ii) if more than one of the above tolling provisions applies, whichever of those causes the longer period of tolling shall apply."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2022"
citation: "Virginia HB 2022 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathleen Murphy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19740cce-1f6f-45b1-bda8-a68b9c1e0f6b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2022"
source_hash: "237b09b296bc40fefbf05369057fb149675a9edcd412660e7e252f553741866b"
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 2022 (2019) — Workers' compensation; tolling of statute of limitations.

Provides that if an employer has received notice of an accident resulting in compensable injury to an employee and the employer has paid compensation or wages to such employee during incapacity for work resulting from such injury or the employer has failed to file the report of said accident with the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission or otherwise has under a workers' compensation plan or insurance policy furnished or caused to be furnished medical service to such employee, the statute of limitations applicable to the filing of a claim shall be tolled until the last day for which such payment of compensation or wages or furnishment of medical services is provided and that occurs more than six months after the date of accident. The measure provides that no such payment of wages or workers' compensation benefits or furnishment of medical service occurring after the expiration of the statute of limitations applies to this provision. The measure also provides that (i) if the employer has failed to file a first report, the statute of limitations shall be tolled during the duration thereof until the employer filed the first report of accident and (ii) if more than one of the above tolling provisions applies, whichever of those causes the longer period of tolling shall apply.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0470)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2022)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2022ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2022ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19106072D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2022H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101117D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2022)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathleen Murphy — primary (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101117D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19106072D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2022H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19740cce-1f6f-45b1-bda8-a68b9c1e0f6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).