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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80137</law_id><section_number>9.1-401.1</section_number><catch_line>Supplemental short-term disability benefit for state police officers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>51.1-1121</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="9.1">Commonwealth Public Safety</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Line of Duty Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A state police officer who is a participating employee, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/51.1-1100/">51.1-1100</a>, and who incurs a work-related injury in the line of duty, shall receive supplemental short-term disability coverage, pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Supplemental short-term disability benefit" href="/51.1-1121/">51.1-1121</a>, that provides income replacement for 100 percent of the officer&#x2019;s creditable compensation for the first six months and, pursuant to a certification by the Superintendent of State Police, based on a medical evaluation, that the officer is likely to return to service within another six months, up to one calendar year, that the officer is disabled, without regard to the officer&#x2019;s number of months of state service. Except as provided in this section with regard to the rate of income replacement and the duration of supplemental short-term disability coverage, such state police officers shall be eligible for work-related, supplemental short-term disability benefits upon the same terms and conditions that apply to other participating employees pursuant to Article 4 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Applicability of article" href="/51.1-1119/">51.1-1119</a> et seq.) of Chapter 11 of Title 51.1. Upon the expiration of the one-calendar-year period, such state police officers shall be eligible for supplemental long-term disability benefits as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Supplemental long-term disability benefit" href="/51.1-1123/">51.1-1123</a>.</p></section></text><history>2010, c. 654.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
