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Subcommittee hears broad support for expanding law‑enforcement retirement coverage; substitute accepted and bill laid on table
Summary
A House subcommittee accepted a substitute to HB1267 that would expand the Virginia Law Officers Retirement System to include additional sworn officers and then voted to lay the bill on the table after extensive testimony from DMV, juvenile justice and other law‑enforcement investigators.
Delegate Stephen Novart offered a substitute to HB1267 that widens eligibility for enhanced retirement benefits to sworn law‑enforcement officers at the Departments of Motor Vehicles, Corrections, Juvenile Justice and the Office of the State Inspector General, and removes probation officers already covered.
The substitute drew sustained testimony from law‑enforcement representatives. Rich Gosk of the Virginia Police Benevolent Association said the retirement system is "kind of a mess" and that similarly situated officers are left out of…
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