You have voted HB-343: Relating to providing a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas..
HB-245: Relating to the treatment of military service credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas as law enforcement or custodial officer service.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Wilson
Referred To Finance on 05/05/2025
You have voted HB-245: Relating to the treatment of military service credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas as law enforcement or custodial officer service..
SB-293: Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Schwertner
See Remarks For Effective Date on 06/20/2025
You have voted SB-293: Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty..
You have voted HB-1225: Relating to the establishment of a bundled-pricing program to reduce certain health care costs in the state employees group benefits program..
HB-1057: Relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule and service credit in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for certain public school career or technology education teachers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alma Allen
Committee Report Printed And Distributed on 05/27/2025
You have voted HB-1057: Relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule and service credit in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for certain public school career or technology education teachers..
SB-312: Relating to the fiduciary responsibility of the governing body of the public retirement systems in this state and the investment managers and proxy advisors acting on behalf of those systems.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Hughes
Scheduled For Public Hearing On . . . on 04/24/2025
You have voted SB-312: Relating to the fiduciary responsibility of the governing body of the public retirement systems in this state and the investment managers and proxy advisors acting on behalf of those systems..
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [SB-328]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
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, 2025, 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, 2025, in
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SB-328: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Emily Brewer
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
Virginia Retirement System; return to work, break in service. [SB-548]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Education ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work; break in service. Reduces, from six months to one month, the length of the required break in service after retirement for a teacher, bus driver, specialized student support instructor, or law-enforcement officer before such person may return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS).
SB-548: Virginia Retirement System; return to work, break in service.
Sponsored by: Sen. Christie New Craig
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
Juvenile detention specialists; enhanced retirement benefits. [HB-1438]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Requires each political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System and each county or city participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits provided to state police officers to juvenile detention specialists.
Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits. [SB-218]
[Retirement ]
[Animals ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
Virginia retirement system; enhanced retirement benefits; animal control officers. Adds full-time animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service for service earned in such positions on or after July 1, 2025, and in certain circumstances service earned prior to that date. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions. The bill has a delayed
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SB-218: Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-300]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
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, 2025, 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, 2025, in
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HB-300: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-630]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
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, 2025, 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, 2025, in
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HB-630: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. [HB-231]
[Animals ]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions.The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2025.
HB-231: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. [HB-1393]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time as a law-enforcement officer and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System. Such person shall be required to have a break in service of at least six calendar months before reemployment. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
HB-1393: Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Jones
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance for certain judges. [SB-396]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Provides that judges appointed or elected to an initial term on or after July 1, 2024, and who are at least age 55 at the time of appointment will be placed in Plan 1 with service weighted at 3.5.
SB-396: Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance for certain judges.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024