2026 SESSION
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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER
An Act to amend and reenact § 65.2-512 of the Code of Virginia, relating to workers' compensation; burial expenses; annual adjustment.
[S 771]
Approved
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 65.2-512 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 65.2-512 . Compensation to dependents of an employee killed; burial expenses.
A. Except as provided in subsections F, G and H, if death results from the accident within nine years, the employer shall pay, or cause to be paid, compensation in weekly payments equal to 66 and two-thirds percent of the employee's average weekly wages, but not more than 100 percent of the average weekly wage of the Commonwealth as defined in § 65.2-500 nor less than 25 percent of the average weekly wage as defined therein:
1. To those persons presumed to be wholly dependent upon the deceased employee as set forth in subdivisions A 1 and 2 of § 65.2-515 , for a period of 500 weeks from the date of injury; or