---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law-enforcement officers w/disability, former; vocational rehabilitation and employment services."
description: "Vocational rehabilitation and employment services for former law-enforcement officers with a disability. Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to make available to law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service can access such programs and services, and provides that every law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth shall provide to every law-enforcement officer who separates from the agency due to a disability resulting from his service information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which such law-enforcement officers may access such programs and services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1025"
citation: "Virginia HB 1025 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b412ae57-d6e8-418a-81f9-e3c070c50e8a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1025"
source_hash: "52a76e8add8b354444f6e459b56f818867d84f6bbcd1bac5e23a5dca2dffd0bc"
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 HB 1025 (2020) — Law-enforcement officers w/disability, former; vocational rehabilitation and employment services.

Vocational rehabilitation and employment services for former law-enforcement officers with a disability. Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to make available to law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service can access such programs and services, and provides that every law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth shall provide to every law-enforcement officer who separates from the agency due to a disability resulting from his service information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which such law-enforcement officers may access such programs and services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0553)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1025ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1025ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1025)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1025H1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1025H1)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Education and Health (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105132D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Assigned HWI sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1025)
- **2020-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-04** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-04** Committee substitute printed 20107016D-H1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-04** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB1025H1)
- **2020-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 20107016D-H1
- **2020-02-07** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1025H1
- **2020-02-10** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-11** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Rereferred from Education and Health (10-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-20** Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB1025ER)
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b412ae57-d6e8-418a-81f9-e3c070c50e8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).