Virginia House Bill 2579

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-13 - Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers, animal control officers, and municipal park rangers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to (i) full-time salaried 911 dispatchers, (ii) full-time animal control officers, and (iii) sworn municipal park rangers qualifying as conservators of the peace. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned in such positions 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 in such positions 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.

VRS; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers, animal control officers, etc.

Del. AC Cordoza [R]	Del. Mike Cherry [R]	Del. Baxter Ennis [R]	Del. Chad Green [R]
Del. Kim Taylor [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-13	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2025-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101876D
2025-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101876D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2579
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2579/text/HB2579
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1020776.PDF