republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-133.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local gov't; ongoing health care for employees exposed to toxic materials."
description: "Department of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure that local government employees who respond to emergencies that expose them to toxic materials have appropriate preemptive and ongoing health care and are able to pay any health expenses related to such emergency and its aftereffects that are not covered by relevant health insurance plans. The work group is directed to report its findings to the General Assembly by November 1, 2024. This bill is identical to SB 650."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 133"
citation: "Virginia HB 133 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 47
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-01-01"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/373dc657-4fc2-4a88-bf24-8bba5af9aed6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB133"
source_hash: "1e25b35bc2fc991b65cf236619f8225da888be364b6bc5b0bbae308c22e9f501"
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 133 (2024) — Local gov't; ongoing health care for employees exposed to toxic materials.

Department of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure that local government employees who respond to emergencies that expose them to toxic materials have appropriate preemptive and ongoing health care and are able to pay any health expenses related to such emergency and its aftereffects that are not covered by relevant health insurance plans. The work group is directed to report its findings to the General Assembly by November 1, 2024. This bill is identical to SB 650.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0174** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0174)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106561D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB133H1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 24108595D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB133S1)
4. **Committee substitute printed 24108612D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB133S2)
5. **HB133ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB133ER)
6. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101734D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB133)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (11-Y 0-N) — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101734D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-18** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB133)
- **2024-01-23** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-23** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Committee substitute printed 24106561D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** Committee on General Laws amendments rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute from Appropriations agreed to 24106561D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB133H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB133H1)
- **2024-02-08** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (11-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28** Committee substitute printed 24108595D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-28** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB133S1)
- **2024-03-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Committee substitute printed 24108612D-S2 `substitution`
- **2024-03-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB133S2)
- **2024-03-06** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Committee substitute rejected 24108595D-S1
- **2024-03-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-03-06** Committee substitute agreed to h5432 `substitution`
- **2024-03-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB133S2 `substitution`
- **2024-03-06** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108612D-S2 (99-Y 0-N `substitution`
- **2024-03-07** VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB133ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 174 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174)
- **2024-04-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB133ER)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/373dc657-4fc2-4a88-bf24-8bba5af9aed6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).