Bill
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Patron
Committee |
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Description |
Comm
Action |
Chamber
Action |
Opp/
Chamber Comm |
Comm
Action |
Chamber Action |
H.B.
1521
Appropriations
Callahan
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M |
Virginia Retirement System; benefits. Increases
monthly retirement benefits of certain future retirees by increasing
the percentage of average final compensation multiplied by the amount
of creditable service from 1.7 to 2.0 for years of service in excess
of 25 years for most state employees, and from 2.0 to 2.3 for certain
state
law-enforcement officers. |
Tabled in Appropriations
12-Y 11-N
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H.B.
1536
Appropriations
Frederick
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M |
Keep Our Promise Act of 2005; car tax
relief. Removes the cap on the overall amount of car tax relief
that was created by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004 Special
Session I and restores the car tax relief program as it was originally
enacted. |
Left in Appropriations
Refer to HB 1654
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H.B.
1654
Finance
Lingamfelter
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O
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Car tax relief. Removes the
cap on the overall amount of car tax relief and gradually increases
the amount of car tax relief to 100% of the reimbursable amount for
qualifying vehicles over a six-year period. The bill
incorporates HBs 2257 and 1536.
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Reported from Appropriations with Substitute
12-Y 8-N
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Passed House
73-Y 21-N
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Senate
Finance
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Left in Finance
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H.B.
1637
Appropriations
Callahan
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M
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Retirement; state police officers and
certain local law-enforcement officers. Modifies the
retirement benefits of state police officers and certain local
law-enforcement officers by (i) increasing from 1.7 percent to 2.7
percent the percentage of average final compensation multiplied by the
years of creditable service in such positions, and by deleting the
supplemental allowance currently paid to members upon retirement until
their Social Security retirement age; (ii) deleting the minimum age
requirement for retirement for members with 25 or more years of
service; and (iii) providing that deputy sheriffs employed by
political subdivisions participating in the Virginia Retirement System
shall receive the same retirement benefits as sheriffs.
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Incorporated into
HB 2660
Then Tabled in Committee
20-Y 4-N
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Bill #
Patron
Committee |
Pos |
Description |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
Opp/ Chamber Comm |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
H.B.
1653
Appropriations
Tata
|
M |
Virginia Retirement Service; life
insurance. Clarifies that an employee with 20 years
creditable service with a retirement plan administered by the VRS or
any other public plan participating in the group life insurance
program will have life insurance based on two times his highest annual
salary earned during such employment. |
Reported out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
99-Y 0-N
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Finance
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
38-Y 0-N
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H.B.
1703
Comm/Labor
T. Kilgore
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O |
Volunteer firefighters; minors.
Provides that ordinances of counties, cities and towns authorizing
participation by minors aged 16 years or older in volunteer fire
companies applies to minors resident anywhere in the Commonwealth, and
exempts such minors from child labor provisions |
Reported out
with Substitute
21-Y 0-N
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Committee Substitute rejected. Patron substitute approved
Passed 96-0
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Commerce
Labor
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B.
1747
C.C.T.
Tata
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O |
Virginia Retirement System; Virginia
Local Sickness and Disability Program. Creates a new
optional local sickness and disability program for local employees
similar to the program that exists for state employees. The Program is
optional at the election of each local employer, with all costs to be
borne by the local employer. The bill has a delayed effective date of
July 1, 2006, but a pilot program is authorized beginning July 1,
2005. |
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H.B.
1920
Appropriations
Cox
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M
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Purchase of prior service for retirement. Provides that in cases
where an employee is purchasing prior service credit at a cost of 5
percent of current compensation or average final compensation, whichever
is greater, if the employee uses pre-tax or post-tax deductions to
purchase the service, then the cost of the service shall be 5 percent of
current compensation even if this is less than 5 percent of average
final compensation.
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Reported Out
24-Y 0-N
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Passed House
96-Y 0-N |
Senate Finance |
Reported from Finance
14-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
38-Y 1-A
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Bill #
Patron
Committee |
Pos |
Description |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
Opp/ Chamber Comm |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
H.B.
1929
Appropriations
Tata
|
M |
Federal social security. Requires that a local governing
body's resolution requesting that its eligible employees become members
of the Virginia Retirement System shall not be approved by the Board of
Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System unless the locality has first
entered into a plan of agreement to extend benefits under the Social
Security Act to its employees. The bill also names the director of the
Virginia Retirement System as the state social security administrator,
and allows him to adopt rules and policies necessary for the
administration of the Social Security Act, instead of the Board.
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Reported out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
99-Y 0-N |
Finance |
Reported from Finance
15-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
38-Y 0-N |
H.B.
1996
Appropriations
Griffith
|
M
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Virginia Retirement System; benefits. Increases monthly
retirement benefits of future retirees by increasing the percentage of
average final compensation multiplied by the amount of creditable
service according to the years of service as follows:Years of Creditable
Service
PercentageofAverageFinalCompensation
Less than 25 years
1.70
25 or more but less than
30
1.80 percent
30 or more but less than
35
1.90 percent
35 or more but less than
40
2.0 percent
40
or
3.0 percent
more
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Tabled
19-Y 5-N
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Bill #
Patron
Committee |
Pos |
Description |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
Opp/ Chamber Comm |
Comm Action |
Chamber Action |
H.B.2039
H.W.I.
Hamilton
|
S |
Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan. Adds several new
requirements to the Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan developed
by the Board of Health. These requirements include establishing and
maintaining (i) a process for crisis intervention and peer support
services for emergency medical services and public safety personnel,
(ii) a statewide emergency medical services for children program, (iii)
a statewide system of health and medical emergency response teams, and
(iv) a program to improve dispatching of emergency medical services. The
bill also deletes an obsolete cross-reference relating to automated
external defibrillators.
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Rolled into
HB 2253
22-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2066
Finance
Rust
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M |
Car tax; dedication of income taxes to localities. Repeals
the car tax reimbursement program and replaces it by dedicating 17.5
percent of the state individual income tax collections to localities.
The bill is effective January 1, 2007, and only if a Constitutional
amendment is ratified in November, 2006 exempting from taxation all
motor vehicles used for nonbusiness purposes.
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Tabled in Committee
22-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2238
H.W.I.
O'Bannon
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S
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Board of Health regulations; emergency medical services personnel
training, agency response times, and enforcement provisions; civil
penalties. Requires the State Board of Health to prescribe, in
regulation, (i) training for emergency medical services personnel; (ii)
collection and reporting of emergency response times; and (iii)
enforcement provisions, including fines, to be assessed by the State
Health Commissioner against any person, agency, or other entity found to
be in violation of the emergency medical services statutes or
regulations.
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Reported with Amendments
21-Y 1-N
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Passed House
93-Y 3-N |
Senate
Education
Health
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N |
Bill
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Patron
Committee |
Pos |
Description |
Comm
Action |
Chamber
Action |
Opp/
Chamber Comm |
Comm
Action |
Chamber Action |
H.B.
2239
H.W.I.
O'Bannon
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S |
Statewide Emergency Medical Services
Plan; publication; training and best practices. Amends the
requirements for the Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan
prepared by the Board of Health to include (i) publishing the Plan;
(ii) expanding the availability of paramedic and advanced life support
training; and (iii) identifying and establishing best practices for
managing and operating emergency medical services agencies, improving
and managing emergency medical response times, and disseminating
certain information. The bill also deletes an obsolete cross reference
to automated external defibrillators. |
Rolled into
HB 2253
22-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2252
H.W.I.
Bell
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S |
State Emergency Medical Services Advisory
Board. Increases the State Emergency Medical Services
Advisory Board from 25 to 27 members appointed by the Governor. The
change reflects the increase in the number of regional emergency
medical services councils. The bill decreases from two to one the
number of representatives of the Virginia Association of Volunteer
Rescue Squads, Inc. The bill contains technical amendments |
Tabled in Committee
22-Y 0-N
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H.B
2253
H.W.I.
Bell
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S |
Statewide Emergency
Medical Services Plan. Adds several new requirements to the
Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan developed by the Board of
Health. These requirements include establishing and maintaining (i) a
process for crisis intervention and peer support services for
emergency medical services and public safety personnel, (ii) a
statewide emergency medical services for children program, (iii) a
statewide system of health and medical emergency response teams, and
(iv) a program to improve dispatching of emergency medical services.
The bill also deletes an obsolete cross-reference relating to
automated external defibrillators. |
Reported with Substitute
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
95-Y 0-N |
Senate
Education
Health |
Reported Out
15-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N |
H.B.
2309
Comm/Labor
Griffith
|
S |
Workers' compensation; definition of
hypertension. Defines hypertension to include stroke,
cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or any cerebral vascular event. VPFF
Actively working this bill. It is priority legislation. |
Tabled
in Committee
12-Y 9-N
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H.B.
2489
Appropriations
Petersen
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M |
Virginia Sickness and Disability Program;
appeal of disability benefit determinations. Clarifies the
authority of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System
to develop an appeals process as an alternative to the process set
forth in the Administrative Process Act (APA), provided that the
process: (i) provides for adequate notice in writing to any
participant whose claim for benefits has been denied setting forth the
specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner calculated to be
understood by the participant and (ii) affords a reasonable
opportunity to any participant whose claim for benefits has been
denied for a full and fair review of the decision denying the claim.
The bill includes technical amendments. |
Reported out
with Amends
24-Y 0-N
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Passed House
96-Y 0-N
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Senate
Finance
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Reported from Finance
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
39-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2498
Finance
Amundson |
M |
Car tax relief; replacing car tax
reimbursements with other local taxing authority. Repeals
the car tax reimbursement program and replaces it by giving counties
the same taxing authority as cities, and authorizing all localities
the option of imposing a local income tax. The bill is effective
January 1, 2007, and only if a Constitutional amendment is ratified in
November 2006 making motor vehicles exempt from taxation. |
Incorporated into HB 2066 Then Tabled in committee
22-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2521
C.C.T.
O'Bannon |
S |
Emergency medical services; maintenance
of continuous services. States that each locality shall be
responsible for ensuring that emergency medical services are
maintained on a 24-hour continuous basis throughout the entire
locality. |
Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
98-Y 0-N |
Senate
Local
Government |
Reported Out
15-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N |
H.B.
2523
H.W.I
O'Bannon |
S |
Localities' authority to charge insurers
for ambulance services. Clarifies that localities are
currently permitted to charge insurers for ambulance services provided
to any person covered by an accident and sickness insurance policy
that provides coverage for ambulance services |
Reported Out
21-Y 0-N
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Passed House
99-Y 0-N
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Education
Health
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Reported Out
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2684
Gen Laws
Lingamfelter |
O |
Fire Prevention Code; local fire
prevention regulations. Provides that local governments may
not adopt regulations more stringent than the state Fire Prevention
Code that would affect the possession, transportation, handling,
storage, sale, or use of firearms or small arms ammunition, including
smokeless powder, black powder, and primers.VPFF IS ACTIVELY
WORKING THIS BILL |
Tabled in Committee
22-Y 0-N
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H.B.
2700
Commerce
Labor
Sickles |
S |
Workers' compensation; enhanced coverage
for first responders during state of emergency. Enhances
workers' compensation coverage for first responders operating during a
state of emergency, including providing that an injury incurred while
traveling from home or another location outside a work location to
that work location is deemed to be within the scope of employment,
eliminating the seven-day waiting period, and permitting the injured
employee to select his own physician. |
Reported out
with Substitute
21-Y 0-N
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Passed House
96-Y 0-N |
Senate
Commerce
Labor |
Reported Out
16-Y 0-N |
Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N |
H.B.
2745
Bell
Appropriations |
M |
Disability benefits;
certain local police departments. Provides that police
departments in those localities that elected to establish their own
local pension plans (instead of participating through the Virginia
Retirement System) shall provide disability benefits to members of
their police departments equivalent to the disability benefits
provided under the Virginia Retirement System. |
Passed by Indefinitely
24-Y 0-N
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H.J.
672
Rules
Athey |
S |
Study; Department of Medical Assistance
Services' Medicaid-approved transportation vendors; report.
Continues the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission study of
pre-hospital emergency medical services in Virginia as set out in
House Joint Resolution No. 133 (2004). The resolution adds to the list
of objectives an examination of the needs and problems associated with
the Department of Medical Assistance Services’ Medicaid-approved
vendors that transport patients for medical purposes such as dialysis. |
Stricken from docket
17-Y 0-N
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SENATE
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S.B.
696
Finance
Ruff
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M |
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System. Provides that the
supplemental allowance currently paid to certain members upon retirement
until age 65 shall instead be paid until Social Security retirement age.
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Reported Out
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
39-Y 0-N
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House Appropriations
Sub-Comm
Compensation
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PBI
24-Y 0-N
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SB
705
Comm/Labor
Y.B. Miller
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M |
Qualification for payment of overtime compensation.
Provides that employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act shall
pay wages for overtime in accordance with the regulations governing
overtime pay that were in effect prior to August 23, 2004, except that
the minimum qualifying salary for an exempt employee (i.e., an employee
not entitled to overtime) shall be that set forth at 29 C.F.R. §
541.600, effective August 23, 2004.
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S.B.
873
Local Gov.
Cuccinelli |
M |
Overtime compensation for law-enforcement
employees. Expands the current overtime compensation
provisions for fire protection employees to law-enforcement employees |
Reported Out
7-Y 6-N
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Passed Senate
25-Y 15-N |
House
General
Laws
sub-1 |
Reported W/ Amendments
14-Y 6-N |
Passed House
90-Y 6-N W/amendments |
S.B.
878
Finance
Wampler |
M |
Line of Duty Act. Provides
for funding of continued health insurance and death payment benefits
under the Line of Duty Act from employer contributions to a Line of
Duty Act Fund administered by the Virginia Retirement System. The
Retirement System shall set the rate of annual employer contributions.
All payments for continued health insurance and death benefit payments
shall be made from the Fund. In general, health insurance coverage
under the Line of Duty Act shall be the basic health insurance plan
for state employees. |
Reported with Substitute
15-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
40-Y 0-N
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House Appropriations
Sub-Comm
Compensation
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Left in Appropriations
24-Y 0-N
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S.B.
918
Finance
Blevins |
M |
Law-enforcement officers retirement
system; emergency medical technicians. Adds full-time
salaried emergency medical technicians to the list of those who may
receive benefits equivalent to those provided under the State Police
Officers' Retirement System. |
Left in Committee
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S.B.
1060
Transportation
Lucas |
M |
Motor medics pilot program.
Creates a motor medics pilot program in the South Hampton Roads area.
The program shall implement the use of motorcycles as a type of
emergency medical services vehicle with the objective of reducing
response time of emergency medical services personnel to emergencies |
Reported Out
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
37-Y 0-N |
House
Health
Welfare
Institutions |
Reported out
13-Y 9-N |
Referred back to Committee
Transportation
Left in Trans. |
S.B.
1073
Finance
Cuccinelli
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M |
Virginia Retirement System; defined
contribution plan. Creates a defined contribution plan as an
alternative to current defined benefit retirement plans. In general,
all employees in any position covered by any retirement plan
administered by the Virginia Retirement System are eligible to elect a
defined contribution plan in lieu of one of the current defined
benefit retirement plans. The employee has 90 days to make an
irrevocable election to participate in the defined contribution plan
or the defined benefit retirement plan for which he is otherwise
eligible. The bill does not amend any of the provisions of deferred
compensation plans currently made available to employees. |
Left in Committee
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S.B.
1145
Educ/Health
Deeds |
S |
State Emergency Medical Services Advisory
Board. Increases the State Emergency Medical Services
Advisory Board from 25 to 27 members appointed by the Governor. The
change reflects the increase in the number of regional emergency
medical services councils. The bill decreases from two to one the
number of representatives of the Virginia Association of Volunteer
Rescue Squads, Inc. |
Reported Out
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
38-Y 0-N |
House
General Laws
Sub-Comm #4
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Reported Out
W/Amendments
21-Y 0-N |
Passed House
98-Y 0-N |
S.B.
1146
Educ/Health
Deeds |
S |
Statewide Emergency Medical Services
Plan; additional programs. Amends the objectives of the
Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan by eliminating the
registration program for automated external defibrillators and
establishing four new objectives including the establishment of (i) a
process for crisis intervention and peer support services for
emergency medical services and public safety personnel; (ii) a
statewide emergency medical services for children program; (iii) a
statewide system of health and medical emergency response teams; and
(iv) a program to improve dispatching of emergency medical services. |
Reported Out
14-Y 0-N
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Passed Senate
38-Y 0-N
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House
Health
Welfare
Institutions
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Reported Out
22-Y 0-N
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Passed House
96-Y 0-N
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S.B.
1159
Comm/Labor
Stolle |
M |
Wireless E-911 Services Board. Amends
the Board’s enabling legislation to resolve a potential
constitutional debt conflict. The bill also removes the exemptions to
E-911 deployment, excludes governments from the surcharge collection,
and establishes a deadline for late funding requests of July 1 each
year. In addition, the bill clarifies the appeals process and expands
the Board’s responsibilities to include development of a single,
statewide electronic addressing database |
Reported Out
w/Amendments
14-Y 1-A
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Passed Senate
39-Y 0-N
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House
Commerce
Labor
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Reported Out
21-Y 0-N
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Passed House
83-Y 8-N
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S.B.
1291
Edwards
Comm/Labor |
S |
Workers' compensation;
definition of hypertension. Defines
hypertension to include stroke, cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or any
cerebral vascular event |
Reported Out
9-Y 3-N 3-A
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Passed Senate
25-Y 15-N
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House
Commerce
Labor
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Tabled
12-Y 8-N 1-A
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