Virginia Senate Bill 491 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2008 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2008-01-29 - Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB367-Watkins) (16-Y 0-N)

VRS; retirement credits for special forest wardens. Provides retirement credits to special forest wardens of the Department of Forestry who participate directly in extinguishing forest fires. Such persons would receive eight hours of retirement credits for each day or portion of a day in which they participate directly in extinguishing a forest fire. The retirement credits could be used to reduce the 30 years of service otherwise required for eligibility for an unreduced service retirement allowance, but not below 25 years of service. The net years and months of service remaining after application of the retirement credits would be the years and months of service required of such special forest warden for eligibility for an unreduced service retirement allowance. Each month of service would be eliminated at the rate of one month of service for each 173 hours of retirement credits.

Retirement System; retirement credits for special forest wardens.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-01-29		Senate: Incorporated by Finance (SB367-Watkins) (16-Y 0-N)
2008-01-09		Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
2008-01-09		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 082856232

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Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+SB491