republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-351.md

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Bill	Workers' compensation; permanent and total incapacity, subsequent accident.	Workers' compensation; permanent and total incapacity; subsequent accident. Requires compensation for permanent and total incapacity to be awarded for the loss of both hands, both arms, both feet, both legs, both eyes, or any two thereof either from the same accident or a compensable consequence of an injury sustained in the original accident. Under current law, compensation for permanent and total incapacity is required only when such loss occurs in the same accident.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 351	Virginia SB 351 (2022)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	4	29	6	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/03254f85-35fb-4c57-a783-110091ba1e76	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB351	aad4c7c62c068aef3f52c2dd98679f9caeffbd42fc34b028128f6bcd3c92a578	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 351 (2022) — Workers' compensation; permanent and total incapacity, subsequent accident.

Workers' compensation; permanent and total incapacity; subsequent accident. Requires compensation for permanent and total incapacity to be awarded for the loss of both hands, both arms, both feet, both legs, both eyes, or any two thereof either from the same accident or a compensable consequence of an injury sustained in the original accident. Under current law, compensation for permanent and total incapacity is required only when such loss occurs in the same accident.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0530 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100102D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22100102D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB351ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100102D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-24 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-27 Printed as engrossed 22100102D-E
• 2022-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-01-27 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-01-27 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB351E
• 2022-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (SB351E)
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy referral-committee
• 2022-02-28 Assigned sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB351ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 530 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03254f85-35fb-4c57-a783-110091ba1e76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).