republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1401.md

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Bill	Va. Law Officers' Retirement System; adds firefighters employed by Department of Military Affairs.	Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; firefighters. Adds full-time firefighters employed by the Department of MilitaryAffairs to the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System for serviceearned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed effectivedate of July 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1401	Virginia HB 1401 (2024)	bill		enacted	Nadarius E. Clark	3	41	10	2024-01-17	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/5c9b9e58-ef4a-4efc-a18e-7a5bd14a9757	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1401	a830f3cb021874f2ae2abe77e19aa35011cc45c3467f11cedd0681dff60e2825	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1401 (2024) — Va. Law Officers' Retirement System; adds firefighters employed by Department of Military Affairs.

Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; firefighters. Adds full-time firefighters employed by the Department of MilitaryAffairs to the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System for serviceearned on or after July 1, 2025. The bill has a delayed effectivedate of July 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0417 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1401ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24105187D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 97-N) — 1–96 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nadarius E. Clark — primary (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 24105187D introduction
• 2024-01-17 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Impact statement from VRS (HB1401)
• 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 (15-Y 0-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 passage
• 2024-03-07 Senate amendment rejected by House (1-Y 97-N) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-07 VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 97-N)
• 2024-03-07 Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-07 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 House acceded to request
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2024-03-07 Senators: Salim, Stuart, Lucas
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-03-07 Delegates: Clark, Willett, Hodges
• 2024-03-08 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1401ER) 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 417 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c9b9e58-ef4a-4efc-a18e-7a5bd14a9757. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).