SB 1083 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

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

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.

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

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Governor

Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → SFIN Sub: Resources Substitute · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended from its original introduced version to a substitute version, primarily changing the title page information and committee attribution while maintaining the core legislative text. The substantive policy provisions regarding retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers and other public safety employees remain unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain the same; no substantive changes to the retirement benefit provisions were made.

TECHNICAL

Title page information was updated to reflect the bill is now an 'Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute' proposed by the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, with updated patron information.

Formatting and line breaks were adjusted throughout the document to match standard legislative substitute formatting conventions.

POLICY

All substantive provisions regarding retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers, deputy sheriffs, fire fighters, emergency medical technicians, and jail officers remain identical to the original introduced version.

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Committee

Jan 7, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations

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1 primary · 3 co-sponsors