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Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-09-16

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Docket for the Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) committee, dated 2020-09-16, in the 2020 Special I session (20202). It lists Richard L. Saslaw as Chair under "Senate Bills in Committee." The entries include HB5028 (workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19), HB5047 (Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act), HB5087 (unemployment compensation; short-time compensation) and HB5116 (paid quarantine leave). The summary for HB5115 (emergency laws; civil relief) provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent and a 30-day stay of foreclosure proceedings for qualifying owners.

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TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-09-16
DATE: 2020-09-16T00:00:00
SESSION: 2020 Special I (20202)
CHAMBER: Senate

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bills in Committee]
  999. HB5028 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Jones
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, first responders, health care providers, and school board employees is an occupational diseases compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The provisions of the bill will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2020.
  999. HB5047 - Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors.
       Patron(s): Murphy
       Summary: Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; manufacturers and distributors. Prohibits any manufacturer or distributor from selling necessary goods or services at an unconscionable price during a declared state of emergency. However, the bill provides such prohibition does not apply to a manufacturer or distributor of agricultural goods or services unless it advertises its goods or services. Under current law, the prohibition from selling necessary goods or services does not apply to any manufacturer or distributor unless it advertises its goods or services to consumers.
  999. HB5087 - Unemployment compensation; extends date VEC is required to establish, etc., short-time compensation.
       Patron(s): Tran
       Summary: Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensation for lost wages. The bill also extends the date by which the Virginia Employment Commission is required to establish and implement such short-time compensation program fro
  999. HB5115 - Emergency laws; civil relief, citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments.
       Patron(s): Price
       Summary: Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments due to state of emergency; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent for tenants and a 30-day stay of foreclosure proceedings for owners of any residential dwelling unit and for homeowners of a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during the period for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency (the Emergency). T
  999. HB5116 - Public and private employers; required to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave, etc.
       Patron(s): Guzman
       Summary: Paid quarantine leave. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee has been employed by the employer. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave may be used for (i) an eligible employee's illness or health condition related to the COVID-19 virus; an eligible employee's need for medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of an illness or health condition related to the COVID-19 virus; or an eligible employee's need

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