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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.
- CHAP0448 (committee substitute) — source
- HB2134ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101448D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (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).