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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1980: Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1980 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Primary sponsor: Phil Hernandez (Democratic). It lists 23 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 14, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 23

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Phil HernandezPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse94
Bonita AnthonyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse92
Elizabeth Bennett-ParkerCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate39
Destiny LeVere BollingCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse80
Betsy CarrCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse78
Nadarius ClarkCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse84
Laura Jane CohenCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse15
Josh ColeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse65
Rae CousinsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse79
Debra GardnerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse76
Dan HelmerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
J.R. HensonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse19
Karen Keys-GamarraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse7
Paul KrizekCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse16
Michelle Lopes MaldonadoCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Marty MartinezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse29
Adele McClureCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse2
Cia PriceCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse85
Atoosa ReaserCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse27
Shelly SimondsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse70
J.J. SinghCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse26
Rip SullivanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse6
Kathy TranCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse18
Jeion WardCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse87

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N)
  2. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
  3. Committee substitute printed 25107055D-S1
  4. Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
  5. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
  6. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  7. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1980)
  8. Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
  9. Printed as engrossed 25102494D-E
  10. Engrossed by House as amended
  11. Labor and Commerce Amendments agreed to
  12. Read second time

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source