Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers.

Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirementbenefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officersto the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirementbenefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localitiesmay provide such benefits to first responders, including firefightersand emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous dutypositions.The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, andprovides that such membership would apply only to service earned onor after July 1, 2025.