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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments."
+description: "Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginiarelating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changesto federal law and conform terminology to federal law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1251"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1251 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephen D. Newman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-01-12"
+last_action: "2021-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1251"
+source_hash: "22272662efe6a96b168978d9af652faa03ef5502d0915222bec0e9e89cfa92cd"
+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 1251 (2021) — Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.
+
+Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginiarelating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changesto federal law and conform terminology to federal law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0054** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0054)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100856D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1251)
+3. **SB1251ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1251ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephen D. Newman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100856D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-13** Impact statement from VRS (SB1251)
+- **2021-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-07** Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations
+- **2021-02-10** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-12** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-12** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from VRS (SB1251ER)
+- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
+- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 54 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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