republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-70.md

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Bill	Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts.	Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System to purchase service credit for prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in any federally established branch of the armed services. Under current law, such purchases are restricted to prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard. The bill also provides that any funds or other property held in a Virginia Retirement System defined contribution plan, deferred compensation plan, or cash match plan remaining unclaimed for more than five years shall be presumed abandoned under the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act and may escheat to the state treasury. Under current law, the Act does not apply to any Virginia Retirement System defined benefit plan funds or other property. This bill is identical to SB 458.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 70	Virginia HB 70 (2024)	bill		enacted	David L. Bulova	3	25	6	2023-12-22	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/9b1a7969-9e19-47fb-8377-6875c5f40c49	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB70	3af9f3549016584cc35d7765406ff4d9a205b849eb78cd6d2c702e78b935b79e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 70 (2024) — Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts.

Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System to purchase service credit for prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in any federally established branch of the armed services. Under current law, such purchases are restricted to prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard. The bill also provides that any funds or other property held in a Virginia Retirement System defined contribution plan, deferred compensation plan, or cash match plan remaining unclaimed for more than five years shall be presumed abandoned under the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act and may escheat to the state treasury. Under current law, the Act does not apply to any Virginia Retirement System defined benefit plan funds or other property. This bill is identical to SB 458.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0267 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB70ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100811D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David L. Bulova — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100811D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-22 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Impact statement from VRS (HB70)
• 2024-01-17 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB70ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from VRS (HB70ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 267 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0267)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b1a7969-9e19-47fb-8377-6875c5f40c49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).