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type: "Bill"
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title: "Line of Duty Act; clarifies provisions of Act."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 2243"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2243 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Commonwealth Public Safety", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Emergency Legislation"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-11"
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last_action: "2017-03-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b685d9a0-2914-4d14-8283-c3022d7d59ce"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2243"
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source_hash: "2b56deb7bb97197385d21a01cc65c796f4ff4eb17515d49b77dd1809d9b10861"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 2243 (2017) — Line of Duty Act; clarifies provisions of Act.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0439)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2243ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2243ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101597D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2243)
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4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101597D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2243E)
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## Votes
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Appropriations with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101597D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-16** Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2243E
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- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17101597D-E
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- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
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- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 439 (effective 3/13/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b685d9a0-2914-4d14-8283-c3022d7d59ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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