republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1251.md

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Bill	Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.	Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginiarelating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changesto federal law and conform terminology to federal law.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1251	Virginia SB 1251 (2021)	bill		enacted	Stephen D. Newman	3	23	6	2021-01-12	2021-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1251	22272662efe6a96b168978d9af652faa03ef5502d0915222bec0e9e89cfa92cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1251 (2021) — Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.

Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments.Makes technical amendments to provisions of the Code of Virginiarelating to the Virginia Retirement System to reflect recent changesto federal law and conform terminology to federal law.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0054 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100856D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB1251ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stephen D. Newman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100856D introduction
• 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-13 Impact statement from VRS (SB1251)
• 2021-01-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-28 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-07 Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations
• 2021-02-10 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-12 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-12 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-17 Enrolled
• 2021-02-17 Signed by President
• 2021-02-18 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-22 Impact statement from VRS (SB1251ER)
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
• 2021-02-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 54 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).