republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1312.md

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Bill	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; extends membership to conservation officers.	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill contains a reenactment clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1312	Virginia HB 1312 (2024)	bill		enacted	Robert D. Orrock, Sr.	3	29	7	2024-01-10	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/04e0d5a2-1de6-4476-8f0d-d8621aee49e4	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1312	c844bfbbdc2f39915f30d4cfe2f73d8d53ae106dc81ff3cb23cdb25c5dd732e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1312 (2024) — Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; extends membership to conservation officers.

Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill contains a reenactment clause.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0416 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1312ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24105176D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
• Hillary Pugh Kent — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Presented and ordered printed 24105176D introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-21 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Impact statement from VRS (HB1312)
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-06 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-03-06 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-03-06 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-03-06 Passed Senate with amendment (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 1-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1312ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 416 (effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/04e0d5a2-1de6-4476-8f0d-d8621aee49e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).