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Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Health insurance credits; retired employees of local socialservices boards. Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired employeesof local social services boards from $2.50 to $4.00 for each full year of theretired member's creditable service. The bill eliminates an overall cap on themonthly amount of the credit, and establishes a formula for determining themonthly health insurance credit for such employees whose retirement was fordisability. A locality would no longer have the option of providing anadditional $1 health insurance credit to retired employees of local socialservices boards. The measure equalizes the health insurance credit for retired employeesof local social services boards with the credit available to retired teachers.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Health insurance credits; certain retired publicofficers and employees. Increases the monthly health insurancecredit from $1.50 to $4.00 for each full year of creditable servicefor retired constitutional officers, employees of constitutional officers,general registrars, employees of general registrars, and local socialservice employees.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Signed by Speaker Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; early retirement provisions forcertain local government officials. Adds all county administrators to thelist of local government officials that currently includes some countyadministrators and other local government officials who may retire without areduction in retirement allowance upon attaining age fifty, if they areinvoluntarily dismissed or are not reappointed.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; defined contributionretirement plan. Creates a new defined contribution retirementplan for all employees who begin employment on or after July 1, 2008,in lieu of participating in any other retirement plan administeredby the Virginia Retirement System. All other employees may elect toparticipate in the plan in lieu of participating in any other retirementplan administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
Latest Action: 03/02/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Public entities; rights of persons with disabilities. Addspublic entities, including schools, to the list of public places in whichpersons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and free rights as otherpersons.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System group insurance program; exemptionfrom process. Makes insurance benefits and the proceeds therefrom underany group insurance policy purchased by the Virginia Retirement System subjectto administrative child support actions and court proceedings to enforce achild or child and spousal support obligations. Currently, these insurancebenefits are exempt from all legal process, though other Virginia RetirementSystem benefits are subject to process to enforce child or child and spousalsupport obligations.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Health insurance credits for retired state employees.Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired state employees from$4 for each year of creditable service to $6 for each year of creditableservice.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; state and locallaw-enforcement officers. Permits members of the State PoliceOfficers' System, the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System, andlocal law-enforcement officials covered under the Virginia RetirementSystem whose localities have elected to provide benefits comparableto that of State Police Officers, to take full retirement (unreduced)if they have at least 25 years of creditable service, regardless oftheir age.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Judicial retirement. Allows a member who is at least 50years of age and has a minimum of 20 years of actual judicial service to retirewith full benefits. The weighted years of service factor and purchased servicecredit cannot be used in calculating the required 20 years of actual service.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Optional retirement plan; institutions of higher education.Provides that the annual contribution to optional retirement plans coveringcertain employees at institutions of higher education would not be less thanthe percentage contribution rate in effect that is generally applicable forstate employees who are members of the Virginia Retirement System, includingthe five percent member contribution rate.
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Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Finance Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; average final compensationretirement multiplier. Allows members of the Virginia Retirement System tomake member contributions for purposes of increasing the average finalcompensation retirement multiplier from 1.7 percent to 1.85 percent. Memberswould be required to pay the actuarial equivalent cost for such increase. Allsuch contributions would be treated as additional employee contributions.
Latest Action: 02/13/2008 - Left in Finance Bill Text
Retirement benefits; public safety officers and statepolice officers. Makes legislation passed by the 2007 Session of theGeneral Assembly that increased retirement benefits for certain sheriffs,deputy sheriffs, public safety officers, and state police officers applicableto persons who retired from service on or after July 1, 2002. Under the 2007legislation, among other changes, the average final compensation retirementmultiplier for sheriffs and state police officers was increased from 1.7percent to 1.85 percent, and all deputy sheriffs of localities participating inthe Virginia Retirement System were provided LEOs retirement benefits.For any such person who retired from service on or after July1, 2002, but before July 1, 2007, any increase in retirement benefits as aresult of the bill would be made available on a prospective basis beginningJuly 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; purchase of prior servicecredit. Permits a member of the Virginia Retirement System whose spouse wasin active duty military service to purchase up to four years of prior servicecredit for the period of time that the member's spouse was in active duty militaryservice provided that the member's spouse was required by the military to moveat least once from a military base in one state to a military base in anotherstate or another country.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; superintendentsand sworn officers of regional jails. Requires localities participatingin the Virginia Retirement System and participating in a regionaljail to provide retirement benefits comparable to the benefits providedto state police officers to the regional jail's superintendent andsworn officers.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Virginia Retirement System; defined contributionretirement plan. Creates a new defined contribution retirementplan for all employees who begin employment on or after July 1, 2008,in lieu of participating in any other retirement plan administeredby the Virginia Retirement System. All other employees may elect toparticipate in the plan in lieu of participating in any other retirementplan administered by the Virginia Retirement System.
Latest Action: 01/17/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation Bill Text
Application for driver's license; social security number.Allows issuance of a driver's license to an applicant who fails to provide asocial security number on the application if such failure is due to a bona fidereligious objection to providing a social security number for any reason notrelated to official social security tax and/or benefit purposes.
Latest Action: 02/05/2008 - Motion to recommit to committee agreed to Bill Text
Mandatory retirement age for judges. Increasesthe mandatory retirement age for judges from age 70 to age 75. Thisbill incorporates SB 34.
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Read second time Bill Text
Mandatory retirement age for judges. Increasesthe mandatory retirement age for judges from age 70 to age 75. Thisbill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Judicial retirement. Allows a member who is at least 50years of age and has a minimum of 20 years of actual judicial service to retirewith full benefits. The weighted years of service factor and purchased servicecredit cannot be used in calculating the required 20 years of actual service.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: State employees' group life insurance. Permits a retireeto make an irrevocable beneficiary designation of his group life insurance topurchase or secure funeral services, and services related to interment,cremation, or other means of disposition.
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