republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-54.md

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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 bill is identical to HB 1495.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 54	Virginia SB 54 (2020)	bill		enacted	John A. Cosgrove, Jr.	6	47	10	2019-11-19	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/edc06b0e-df0b-4256-861c-94f91ebf043c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB54	f314b36a5a88f9fa3eefe934bf22772f5d4ea66ff2f037ed20f3d0d3bcf7229e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 54 (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 bill is identical to HB 1495.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0969) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB54ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB54H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB54E (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from VRS (SB54) (committee substitute) — source
6. SB54S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) — 1–39 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (90-Y 0-N) — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
• Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-19 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100467D introduction
• 2019-11-19 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Finance to Finance and Appropriations due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-12 Impact statement from VRS (SB54)
• 2020-01-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-01-30 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-01-30 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB54E
• 2020-01-30 Printed as engrossed 20100467D-E
• 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 Impact statement from VRS (SB54E)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-28 Committee substitute printed 20108973D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20108973D-H1
• 2020-03-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB54H1
• 2020-03-04 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-05 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-03-05 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
• 2020-03-05 House insisted on substitute
• 2020-03-05 House requested conference committee
• 2020-03-05 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-07 Conference substitute printed 20109718D-S1
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-08 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (90-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (90-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 969 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/edc06b0e-df0b-4256-861c-94f91ebf043c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).