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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Va. Law Officers' Retirement System; adds firefighters employed by Department of Military Affairs."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1401"
citation: "Virginia HB 1401 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nadarius E. Clark"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c9b9e58-ef4a-4efc-a18e-7a5bd14a9757"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1401"
source_hash: "a830f3cb021874f2ae2abe77e19aa35011cc45c3467f11cedd0681dff60e2825"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0417)
2. **HB1401ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1401ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 24105187D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1401)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c9b9e58-ef4a-4efc-a18e-7a5bd14a9757`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).