Commending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.
Sponsored bills
Commending Margaret L. Sanner.
Celebrating the life of Charles D. Grant.
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2025, 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 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2025, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
Pilot program for underground transmission lines; qualifying projects. Increases the maximum capacity of qualifying electrical transmission lines, for purposes of the pilot projectfor underground transmission lines, from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts.The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission shall approveadditional qualifying projects as part of the pilot program thattraverse along highways in developed areas where the route of proposedtransmission lines and towers traverse areas protected by a sceniceasement, view shed easement, areas of registered historic designation,or areas of conservation easements. Under the bill, existing requirementsfor qualifying projects shall continue to apply to such new categoryof qualifying projects.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Commending Scott McGeary.
Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each motor vehicle. The bill also creates the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund to provide funding (i) to increase the number of firefighters and emergency medical services personnel to help communities meet industry minimum standards and attain 24-hour staffing to provide adequate assistance and (ii) to purchase heavy apparatus necessary for fire and emergency medical services.