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Bill 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. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 HB 2134 Virginia HB 2134 (2021)
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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
  2. HB2134ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101448D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 53 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (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; origin ocd-bill/30257fdc-fd38-41db-be2f-ae6ad1a728a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).