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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Line of Duty Act; Act includes firefighter trainees."
+description: "Includes under the Line of Duty Act a person with a recognized membership status with a fire company or department who is enrolled in a Fire Service Training course offered by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs or required to become a certified firefighter."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 1118"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1118 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy S. McPike"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b85ac5e3-ba3c-4480-ab03-821e7fa6027f"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1118"
+source_hash: "33eb1609502c5bdb750f96c0a1705fcfd8c3c32f52e7ba861ca2f25e18df145e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 1118 (2017) — Line of Duty Act; Act includes firefighter trainees.
+
+Includes under the Line of Duty Act a person with a recognized membership status with a fire company or department who is enrolled in a Fire Service Training course offered by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs or required to become a certified firefighter.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0627)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1118ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1118ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102238D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1118)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
+- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102238D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-06** Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
+- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 627 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b85ac5e3-ba3c-4480-ab03-821e7fa6027f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+