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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Retirement System; technical amendments."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1251"
citation: "Virginia SB 1251 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen D. Newman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1251"
source_hash: "22272662efe6a96b168978d9af652faa03ef5502d0915222bec0e9e89cfa92cd"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0054)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100856D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1251)
3. **SB1251ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1251ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d93f120-f751-4e4b-bdc0-d39fb2475f58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).