republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2243.md

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Bill	Line of Duty Act; clarifies provisions of Act.	Clarifies provisions of the Line of Duty Act, including clarifying that suspension or reinstatement of health insurance benefits begins and ends at the beginning of a health insurance plan year rather than in the middle of a plan year and recognizing current practice that the Line of Duty Act administrator provides materials for training. The bill codifies certain provisions of the Line of Duty Act that currently are in the appropriation act. The bill modifies the provision that would have disqualified, effective July 1, 2017, the surviving spouse of a deceased member who remarried from receiving health insurance benefits, by restricting the disqualification to surviving spouses who remarry on or after July 1, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2243	Virginia HB 2243 (2017)	bill	Commonwealth Public Safety Counties Cities and Towns Emergency Legislation	enacted	S. Chris Jones	4	18	6	2017-01-11	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b685d9a0-2914-4d14-8283-c3022d7d59ce	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2243	2b56deb7bb97197385d21a01cc65c796f4ff4eb17515d49b77dd1809d9b10861	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2243 (2017) — Line of Duty Act; clarifies provisions of Act.

Clarifies provisions of the Line of Duty Act, including clarifying that suspension or reinstatement of health insurance benefits begins and ends at the beginning of a health insurance plan year rather than in the middle of a plan year and recognizing current practice that the Line of Duty Act administrator provides materials for training. The bill codifies certain provisions of the Line of Duty Act that currently are in the appropriation act. The bill modifies the provision that would have disqualified, effective July 1, 2017, the surviving spouse of a deceased member who remarried from receiving health insurance benefits, by restricting the disqualification to surviving spouses who remarry on or after July 1, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2243ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101597D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17101597D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• S. Chris Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101597D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB2243E
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17101597D-E
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled
• 2017-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 439 (effective 3/13/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b685d9a0-2914-4d14-8283-c3022d7d59ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).