2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB1619: Va. Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers, delayed effective date.

Legislative Summary

Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2026, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2026, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.

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Bill History

1/3/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102439D
House of Delegates
1/3/2025
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
House of Delegates
1/9/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB1619)
House of Delegates
1/11/2025
Assigned Approps sub: Compensation and Retirement
House of Delegates
2/4/2025
Left in Appropriations
House of Delegates