---
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: "HB 2181"
citation: "Virginia HB 2181 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candi Mundon King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2eeb100-28ff-4906-9b57-27fb47c01c54"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2181"
source_hash: "1c748e254f9d3389cc479972deade179bc725ed7aec0fee121266155031738c1"
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 2181 (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. **CHAP0053** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0053)
2. **HB2181ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2181ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100855D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2181)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (19-Y 0-N) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Candi Mundon King — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100855D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Impact statement from VRS (HB2181)
- **2021-01-15** Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Reported from Appropriations (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-16** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from VRS (HB2181ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 53 (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/d2eeb100-28ff-4906-9b57-27fb47c01c54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).