Retirement Systems
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; extends membership to conservation officers. [HB-891]
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Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. 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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit for certain teachers and school bus drivers. [HB-687]
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Virginia Retirement System; additional service credit. Allows an individual who serves concurrently as a full-time primary or secondary school teacher and as a full-time school bus driver to receive additional service credit in the Virginia Retirement System for providing such services. The bill specifies that the amount of credit allowable shall be equivalent to the amount of credit that the individual would earn if he were employed only as a full-time school bus driver.
Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Stricken From Docket By Appropriations (22-y 0-n) on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits. [SB-218]
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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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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/21/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-630]
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; extends membership to emergency dispatchers. [HB-631]
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Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; emergency dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to emergency dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police and agencies whose law-enforcement officers are eligible for membership in VaLORS. 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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Cherry
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance, hazardous duty. [SB-130]
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Virginia Retirement System; service retirement allowance; hazardous duty. Provides that members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System, political subdivision employees eligible for enhanced hazardous duty coverage, and members of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System who are eligible for a hazardous duty supplement shall receive such supplement amount from the date of retirement. Under current law, the supplement is only allowed from the date of retirement until (i) for the State Police Officers' Retirement System and political subdivisions
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christie New Craig
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; investments, diversity, equity, and inclusion investing restricted. [HB-388]
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Virginia Retirement System; investments; diversity, equity, and inclusion investing restricted. Provides that unless the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System can demonstrate that a social investment, defined in the bill, would provide a superior rate of return compared to a similar investment that is not a social investment with a similar time horizon and risk, neither the Board nor any external fiduciary utilized by the Board may invest or make recommendations regarding state funds for the purpose of social investment on or after
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Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Griffin
Stricken From Docket By Appropriations (22-y 0-n) on 01/31/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-300]
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. [HB-231]
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Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Retirement systems; financial reports, annual disclosures. [HB-162]
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Financial reports by retirement systems; annual disclosures. Requires retirement systems to provide disclosures describing the process and criteria used for selecting third-party fund managers, advisers, or consultants and other persons providing services to the retirement system. Such information shall be included in a retirement system's annual report.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. [HB-99]
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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. Virginia Retirement System; return to work for law-enforcement officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work full time
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. [HB-70]
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Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System to purchase service credit for prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in any federally established branch of the armed services. Under current law, such purchases are restricted to prior full-time active duty military service of at least 180 consecutive days in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard. Virginia Retirement System; plan credits and accounts. Allows members of the Virginia
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0267) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. [HB-38]
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2025 By Voice Vote on 02/05/2024
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to social security coverage for employees of public school districts. [HB-114]
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Relating to social security coverage for employees of public school districts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Johnson
Filed on 11/17/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation. [SB-27]
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Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sarah Eckhardt
Received By The Secretary Of The Senate on 11/08/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability. [HB-1]
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Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Briscoe Cain
Motion To Reconsider And Table Prevails on 11/17/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation. [HB-28]
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Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Bucy
Filed on 11/07/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to measures to address public safety threats in this state presented by transnational criminal activity, including by establishing the Texas Homeland Security Division and the Border Security Advisory Council, and to compensate persons affected by those threats. [HB-13]
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Relating to measures to address public safety threats in this state presented by transnational criminal activity, including by establishing the Texas Homeland Security Division and the Border Security Advisory Council, and to compensate persons affected by those threats.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen
Filed on 11/07/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session
Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability. [HB-1]
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Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bradley Buckley
Filed on 10/19/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session
Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation. [SB-66]
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Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judith Zaffirini
Received By The Secretary Of The Senate on 10/11/2023