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| Bill | Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits for certain emergency dispatchers. | Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits; emergency dispatchers. Requires that, beginning July 1, 2026, emergency dispatchers who are not members of the hybrid retirement program become participants in the disability program for hybrid retirement plan members if the locality employing such dispatcher participates in such program. The employers of such dispatchers shall provide the costs required for funding participation in such program. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | HB 1705 | Virginia HB 1705 (2025) |
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Virginia HB 1705 (2025) — Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits for certain emergency dispatchers.
Virginia Retirement System; disability benefits; emergency dispatchers. Requires that, beginning July 1, 2026, emergency dispatchers who are not members of the hybrid retirement program become participants in the disability program for hybrid retirement plan members if the locality employing such dispatcher participates in such program. The employers of such dispatchers shall provide the costs required for funding participation in such program.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Compensation and Retirement Substitute Offered (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102843D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2025-01-11 Assigned Approps sub: Compensation and Retirement
referral-committee - 2025-01-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB1705)
- 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
substitution - 2025-01-29 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106144D-H1
substitution - 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB1705)
- 2025-01-31 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-03 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2025-02-11 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-12 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-17 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1705ER)
passage - 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB1705)
- 2025-02-20 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a04d0380-d617-40a0-ad63-0d25b8c9aefb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).