republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-241.md

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Bill	Workers' compensation; notice of right to dispute claim.	Workers' compensation; notice of right to disputeclaim. Requires that when an employee's workers' compensationclaim is denied, an employer or insurer shall include in its letterdenying benefits a notice that the employee has a right to disputethe claim denial through the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 241	Virginia SB 241 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	3	27	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/8ded07a6-85b7-4839-b4c5-2e35f5f9d29f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB241	152229155605ec13317cd9f18db9f89fcad89072fac12a2a68e8025c17dc03c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 241 (2024) — Workers' compensation; notice of right to dispute claim.

Workers' compensation; notice of right to disputeclaim. Requires that when an employee's workers' compensationclaim is denied, an employer or insurer shall include in its letterdenying benefits a notice that the employee has a right to disputethe claim denial through the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0584 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100990D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB241ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (17-Y 4-N) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (70-Y 27-N) — 69–27 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 11-N) — 29–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100990D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB241)
• 2024-01-22 Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-25 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-26 Passed by for the day
• 2024-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Reported from Labor and Commerce (17-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed House (70-Y 27-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 VOTE: Passage (70-Y 27-N) passage
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB241ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB241ER)
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 584 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0584)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ded07a6-85b7-4839-b4c5-2e35f5f9d29f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).