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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments."
description: "Makes technical amendments to Title 51.1, Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement, including clarifying that medical boards may be composed of not only physicians but also other health care professionals and that the only federal civilian service eligible to be purchased as membership credit is full-time service. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 846"
citation: "Virginia HB 846 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pensions", "Benefits and Retirement", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Riley E. Ingram"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60b4e369-9a88-486b-8c96-3d0f38f2c4f2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB846"
source_hash: "d70bb27dd2fdf9effd1c225f84fad42fcac4e0e60e34bd140c53e7fdb0620983"
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 846 (2018) — Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.
Makes technical amendments to Title 51.1, Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement, including clarifying that medical boards may be composed of not only physicians but also other health care professionals and that the only federal civilian service eligible to be purchased as membership credit is full-time service. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0053)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB846ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB846ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103289D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB846)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **110** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Riley E. Ingram — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103289D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned App. sub: Compensation & Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- **2018-02-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 53 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60b4e369-9a88-486b-8c96-3d0f38f2c4f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).