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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 218: Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits.

Passed one chamber 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

SB 218 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 8, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Retirement system; animal control officers to receive benefits. Primary sponsor: Mamie Locke (Democratic). 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; 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 effective date of July 1, 2025.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mamie LockePrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate23

“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. Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  4. Read first time
  5. Placed on Calendar
  6. Impact statement from VRS (SB218S1)
  7. Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  8. Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  9. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB218S1
  10. Committee substitute agreed to 24107180D-S1
  11. Reading of substitute waived
  12. Read second time

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

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