Virginia House Bill 2194

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-04 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Permits political subdivisions participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to juvenile detention specialists. The bill applies only to service earned as a juvenile detention specialist on or after July 1, 2026, 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 juvenile detention specialist before July 1, 2026, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.

Juvenile detention specialists; enhanced retirement benefits.

Del. Delores McQuinn [D]

Del. Bill Wiley [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-04	House	Left in Appropriations
2025-01-17	House	Assigned Approps sub: Compensation and Retirement
2025-01-15	House	Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB2194)
2025-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2025-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104568D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2194
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2194/text/HB2194
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1020771.PDF