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Bill	Line of Duty Act; increases payment of benefits.	Line of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths that will occur on or after January 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 649.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 321	Virginia HB 321 (2024)	bill		enacted	Delores L. McQuinn	6	57	13	2024-01-05	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/6a283af4-66ee-41c2-b0f8-586eec86a258	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB321	97713d0de58467b621434fc495bd91aaf36b6f14f8f4f3653b4c6a5f2ac85d5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 321 (2024) — Line of Duty Act; increases payment of benefits.

Line of Duty Act; payment of benefits. Increases from $25,000 to $75,000 the death benefit payout under the Virginia Line of Duty Act for a death caused by occupational cancer, respiratory disease, or hypertension or heart disease for those deaths that will occur on or after January 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 649.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0380 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108642D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference substitute printed 24109069D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB321ER (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101266D (committee substitute) — source
6. Printed as engrossed 24101266D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED #2 (0-Y 98-N) — 0–97 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 0-N) — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Ellen H. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101266D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from VRS (HB321)
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by House as amended HB321E
• 2024-02-08 Printed as engrossed 24101266D-E
• 2024-02-09 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Impact statement from VRS (HB321E)
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Committee substitute printed 24108642D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from VRS (HB321S1)
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24108642D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB321S1 substitution
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-06 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108642D-S1 (98-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-06 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-06 Reconsideration of Senate substitute agreed to by House substitution
• 2024-03-06 Senate substitute rejected by House 24108642D-S1 (0-Y 98-N)
• 2024-03-06 VOTE: REJECTED #2 (0-Y 98-N)
• 2024-03-07 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 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, Lucas, Stuart
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-03-07 Delegates: McQuinn, Thomas, Bloxom
• 2024-03-08 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-08 Conference substitute printed 24109069D-H1
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from VRS (HB321H1)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB321ER) 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 380 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a283af4-66ee-41c2-b0f8-586eec86a258. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).