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Bill	Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers.	Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local school division as a school security officer, so long as he has a break in service of at least 12 calendar months between retirement and reemployment, did not retire under an early retirement program, and did not retire under the Workforce Transition Act of 1995. The provisions of the act shall expire on July 1, 2025. The bill incorporates HB 986, HB 1368 and HB 1493.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1495	Virginia HB 1495 (2020)	bill		enacted	Luke E. Torian	6	48	10	2020-01-08	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/d6fe39bc-718b-4362-99d6-132716561778	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1495	535fccc01c398fa7898f486ec92f4afdddda9488958308ec977c2312a8788de4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1495 (2020) — Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers.

Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local school division as a school security officer, so long as he has a break in service of at least 12 calendar months between retirement and reemployment, did not retire under an early retirement program, and did not retire under the Workforce Transition Act of 1995. The provisions of the act shall expire on July 1, 2025. The bill incorporates HB 986, HB 1368 and HB 1493.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0968) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1495ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1495H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1495S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB1495H2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Impact statement from VRS (HB1495) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N) — 0–98 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Luke E. Torian — primary (person)
• Amanda E. Batten — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Presented and ordered printed 20104237D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Impact statement from VRS (HB1495)
• 2020-01-31 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-31 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Committee substitute printed 20107407D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-31 Incorporates HB986 (Batten)
• 2020-01-31 Incorporates HB1493 (Helmer)
• 2020-01-31 Incorporates HB1368 (Leftwich)
• 2020-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 20107407D-H1
• 2020-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1495H1
• 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-07 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from VRS (HB1495H1)
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Committee substitute printed 20108169D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 20108169D-S1
• 2020-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1495S1
• 2020-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-24 Impact statement from VRS (HB1495S1)
• 2020-02-24 Senate substitute rejected by House 20108169D-S1 (0-Y 99-N)
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N)
• 2020-02-26 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 Senate requested conference committee
• 2020-02-27 House acceded to request
• 2020-02-27 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-02 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-07 Conference substitute printed 20109712D-H2
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 968 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6fe39bc-718b-4362-99d6-132716561778. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).