HB 585 VA

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Introduced

Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers and 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried animal control officers and 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried animal control officer or 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2027, 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 animal control officer or 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2027, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.

• Jason S. Ballard Republican · primary

1. Jan 13, 2026 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101122D · lower
2. Jan 13, 2026 Referred to Committee on Finance · lower
3. Jan 21, 2026 Referred from Finance and referred to Appropriations (Voice Vote) · lower
4. Jan 25, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Virginia Retirement System (HB585) · lower
5. Feb 18, 2026 Left in Committee Appropriations · lower

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

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