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type: "Bill"
title: "Unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Vol. Firefighters'/Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund."
description: "Certain unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund. Provides that any funds or other property held or payable to a member of the Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund that have remained unclaimed for more than five years after such member's forfeiture of his membership or the dissolution of a volunteer emergency medical services agency or volunteer fire department shall be presumed abandoned for the purposes of the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 934"
citation: "Virginia SB 934 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christie New Craig"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcaa9b1a-5dba-498d-8e7a-ab86eb6255b9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB934"
source_hash: "463680ab4e4fd29c7b21ed132cf76de257160824fdee14c6c10d27da46f81a06"
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 SB 934 (2025) — Unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Vol. Firefighters'/Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund.
Certain unclaimed property presumed abandoned; Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund. Provides that any funds or other property held or payable to a member of the Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Service Award Fund that have remained unclaimed for more than five years after such member's forfeiture of his membership or the dissolution of a volunteer emergency medical services agency or volunteer fire department shall be presumed abandoned for the purposes of the Virginia Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013816.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074533.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1053790.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) — **190** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christie New Craig — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104128D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (SB934)
- **2025-01-22** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-24** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Engrossed by Senate
- **2025-01-28** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-11** Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-18** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB934ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (SB934)
- **2025-02-18** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 440 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcaa9b1a-5dba-498d-8e7a-ab86eb6255b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).