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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 231: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 231 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 4, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Primary sponsor: Ellen McLaughlin (Republican). Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ellen McLaughlinPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse36

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
  3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  4. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  5. Impact statement from VRS (HB231)
  6. Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement
  7. Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  8. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103013D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source