---
type: "Bill"
title: "Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund Board; meetings."
description: "Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund Board; meetings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 896"
citation: "Virginia SB 896 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Emergency Services and Vehicles", "Pensions", "Benefits and Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-21"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c74f664-c512-4627-bdb5-135cd072b001"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB896"
source_hash: "5b8daf821fa3c3871bd80a122987993cdc51f38368fea3ba50e62a86e381136d"
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 896 (2017) — Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund Board; meetings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0209)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB896ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB896ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101756D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB896)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101756D `introduction`
- **2016-12-21** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Assigned MPPS sub: #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-14** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 209 (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/1c74f664-c512-4627-bdb5-135cd072b001`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).