Loading
Loading
Your feedback directly shapes Sporos.
Sign in to track your feedback history
Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing reasonable standards designed to protect employees from heat illness and establish a list of high-hazard industries, as defined in the bill. The bill authorizes a person aggrieved by a violation of its provisions or the regulations promulgated thereunder to seek to obtain injunctive relief, to recover statutory damages of $1000, or both, in an action commenced within one year of the cause of action. The bill requires the Safety and Health Codes Board, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Industry, to develop a list of high-hazard industries by January 1, 2026, and to develop and adopt regulations requiring employers in high-hazard industries to implement standards for heat illness prevention by May 1, 2026.
Introduced
Jan 7, 2025
Last Action
Feb 14, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 23 co
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
Committee substitute printed 25107055D-S1
Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
Engrossed by House as amended
Read second time
Labor and Commerce Amendments agreed to
Printed as engrossed 25102494D-E
Read first time
Reported from Labor and Commerce with amendment(s) (12-Y 10-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 2-N)
Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102494D
Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
Get a plain-English explanation of what this bill does, who it affects, and why it matters.
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N)
Phil M. Hernandez
Adele Y. McClure
Jeion A. Ward
Bonita G. Anthony
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Betsy B. Carr
Nadarius E. Clark
Joshua G. Cole
Debra D. Gardner
Dan I. Helmer
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Paul E. Krizek
Michelle Lopes Maldonado
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
Atoosa R. Reaser
Shelly A. Simonds
JJ Singh
Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.
Kathy K.L. Tran