Pensions Benefits And Retirement
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [SB-328]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emily Brewer
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia Retirement System; return to work, break in service. [SB-548]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement officer before such person may return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS).
Sponsored by: Sen. Christie New Craig
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Juvenile detention specialists; enhanced retirement benefits. [HB-1438]
Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Requires each political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System and each county or city participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to juvenile detention specialists.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wiley
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits. [SB-218]
Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in such positions on or after July 1, 2025, and in certain circumstances service earned prior to that date. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions. The bill has a delayed
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-300]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-630]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. [HB-231]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions.The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. [HB-1393]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Jones
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance for certain judges. [SB-396]
Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Provides that judges appointed or elected to an initial term on or after July 1, 2024, and who are at least age 55 at the time of appointment will be placed in Plan 1 with service weighted at 3.5.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Retirement systems; financial reports, annual disclosures. [HB-162]
Financial reports by retirement systems; annual disclosures. Requires retirement systems to provide disclosures describing the process and criteria used for selecting third-party fund managers, advisers, or consultants and other persons providing services to the retirement system. Such information shall be included in a retirement system's annual report.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-38]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; extends membership to emergency dispatchers. [HB-631]
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; emergency dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to emergency dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police and agencies whose law-enforcement officers are eligible for membership in VaLORS. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Cherry
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
General registrars; term of office and exception from general early retirement provisions. [HB-1529]
General registrars; term of office and exception from general early retirement provisions. Extends the term of office of general registrars from four years to eight years beginning on July 1, 2029, and extends the term of any general registrar serving on the effective date of the bill until June 30, 2029. The bill also provides that, in making an appointment of a general registrar, there shall be a presumption that an incumbent general registrar seeks to continue in office unless such general registrar notifies the electoral board in writing to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (14-y 8-n) on 02/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile detention specialists; enhanced retirement benefits. [HB-1438]
Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Requires each political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System and each county or city participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to juvenile detention specialists.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wiley
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Va. Law Officers' Retirement System; adds firefighters employed by Department of Military Affairs. [HB-1401]
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; firefighters. Adds full-time firefighters employed by the Department of Military Affairs to the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System for service earned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0417) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. [HB-1393]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Jones
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit for certain teachers and school bus drivers. [SB-622]
Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit. Allows an individual who serves concurrently as a full-time primary or secondary school teacher and as a full-time school bus driver to receive additional service credit in the Virginia Retirement System for providing such services. The bill specifies that the amount of credit allowable shall be equivalent to the amount of credit that the individual would earn if he were employed only as a full-time school bus driver.
Sponsored by: Sen. Todd Pillion
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [SB-472]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Incorporated By Finance And Appropriations on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. [SB-458]
Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System to purchase service credit for prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in any federally established branch of the armed services. Under current law, such purchases are restricted to prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard. Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0353) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; return to work, break in service. [SB-548]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement officer before such person may return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS).
Sponsored by: Sen. Christie New Craig
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/06/2024