Subject Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1532 | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Makes technical changes necessary to carry out the purpose of Chapter 811 of the 2012 Acts of Assembly, permitting localities to exempt firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and law-enforcem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0666) |
| VA | SB854 | Virginia Retirement System; certain local employees. Allows that a political subdivision may by resolution irrevocably declare that persons employed as firefighters, emergency medical technicians, or law-enforcement officers shall be considered to ha... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0456) |
| VA | SB995 | Virginia Retirement System. Makes technical changes to carry out provisions enacted by the General Assembly in 2012 regarding retirement plans administered by the Virginia Retirement System. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0463) |
| VA | SB953 | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; services for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Expands the duties of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services related to services for individuals with Alzheimer's... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| VA | SB740 | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB838 | State employees not participating in Virginia Sickness and Disability Program; purchase of state service. Provides members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System and the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System who commenced employment or we... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB934 | Charter schools; personnel. Allows public charter schools to designate in their application whether their employees will participate in the Virginia Retirement System. The bill directs the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System to develo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1251 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school security officers. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain conditions. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB1244 | Virginia Retirement System benefits. Provides for an increase, beginning July 1, 2013, of the monthly retirement allowance payable to any person who retired with at least 15 years of creditable service before January 1, 1990, under the Virginia Retir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| VA | HB1331 | Retirement benefits for local employees. Provides that any locality may establish and maintain a defined contribution retirement plan for its employees in lieu of any other retirement plans for employees hired on or after July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1568 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1590 | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1625 | Virginia Retirement System; collection of overpayments to retirees and beneficiaries. Prohibits VRS from collecting overpayments made to a retiree or beneficiary if the proximate cause of the overpayment was a computational error made by VRS or one o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2168 | Virginia Retirement System; hybrid retirement program. Increases the maximum amount of the employer's matching contribution on behalf of the employee from 2.5 percent of creditable compensation to 2.8 percent of creditable compensation. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2173 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1626 | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the General Assembly may, by appropriate legislative action, add full-time employees of the Department of Military Affairs who provide fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Nat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2289 | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Expands the recipients of the health insurance credits currently going to retired teachers to all retired employees of local school divisions. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SJR319 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); contributions to defined benefit retirement plans maintained for employees. Requires that contributions to defined benefit retirement plans that are maintained for state employees and employees of particip... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 Rejected by Senate (16-Y 24-N) |
| VA | SB1360 | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the General Assembly may, by appropriate legislative action, add full-time employees of the Department of Military Affairs who provide fire protection services for facilities of the Virginia Nat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2277 | School security officers. Provides that school security officers shall be retired law-enforcement officers or persons who have been certified as a law-enforcement officer within the previous five years of employment as a school security officer. Such... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 Tabled in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB787 | Health insurance credits for retired school division employees. Provides that the health insurance credit currently being provided to retired teachers would also be provided to all retired employees of the local school division at the option of the l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 Passed by indefinitely in Finance (11-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB762 | Mandatory judicial retirement. Increases the mandatory retirement age under the Judicial Retirement System from 70 years of age to 73 years of age. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-14 Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| VA | SB331 | Law-enforcement officers retirement; early retirement. Requires that all employers electing to provide benefits equivalent to the State Police Officers' Retirement System for employees in hazardous duty positions consider employees eligible for full ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB357 | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; membership. Adds conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation as members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Conservation officers would accrue retirement benefits unde... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SJR5 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); contributions to defined benefit retirement plans maintained for employees. Requires that contributions to defined benefit retirement plans that are maintained for state employees and employees of particip... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SJR48 | Study; JLARC; determination eligibility for disability claims under the Virginia Retirement System; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the system for determining eligibility for disability claims under... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB208 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB428 | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law-enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law-enf... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB486 | Virginia Retirement System; certain employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education. Provides employees in the optional retirement plan for institutions of higher education the opportunity to purchase service credit in ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1078 | Fairfax County; retirement. Requires Fairfax County to exclude members of its retirement system who are elected officials from participating in its Deferred Retirement Option Program ("DROP"). [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB216 | Virginia Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel. Provides that retired law-enforcement officers may be hired as local school board security personnel without interruption of their retirement benefits under certain condit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
