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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60704</law_id><section_number>2.2-2744</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Organization of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="D">State Authorities, Boards, Commissions, Councils, Foundations and Other Collegial Bodies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="27.1">State-Facilitated IRA Savings Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the governing <span class="dictionary">board</span> of the Commonwealth Savers <span class="dictionary">Plan</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Committee</span>&#x201D; means the Program Advisory <span class="dictionary">Committee</span> established pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Program Advisory Committee; membership; qualifications; duties" href="/2.2-2746/">2.2-2746</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Eligible employee</span>&#x201D; means any individual who is (i) 18 years of age or older, (ii) currently employed at least 30 hours a week, and (iii) receiving <span class="dictionary">wages</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Eligible employer</span>&#x201D; means a nongovernmental business, industry, trade, profession, or other enterprise in the Commonwealth, whether conducted on a for-profit or nonprofit basis, that employed 25 or more <span class="dictionary">eligible employees</span>, as reported to the Virginia Employment Commission pursuant to 16VAC5-32-20, or any successor regulation, for the quarter ending December 31 and the preceding three quarters of the preceding calendar year and has been operating for at least two years prior to Program implementation. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Eligible employer</span>&#x201D; does not include an employer that sponsors, maintains, or contributes to an automatic enrollment payroll deduction <span class="dictionary">IRA</span> or a qualified retirement <span class="dictionary">plan</span> in compliance with federal <span class="dictionary">law</span> for its employees, including <span class="dictionary">plans</span> qualified under &#xA7;&#xA0;401(a), 403(a), 403(b), 408(k), or 408(p) of the Internal Revenue Code. An employer shall become an <span class="dictionary">eligible employer</span> at any time if it meets the eligibility requirements under this chapter.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Fee</span>&#x201D; means any investment management charges, administrative charges, investment advice charges, trading <span class="dictionary">fees</span>, marketing and sales <span class="dictionary">fees</span>, revenue sharing, broker <span class="dictionary">fees</span>, and other costs necessary to run the Program.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Individual retirement account</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">IRA</span>&#x201D; means a Roth or traditional <span class="dictionary">individual retirement account</span> or annuity under &#xA7;&#xA0;408 or 408A of the Internal Revenue Code.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Participating employee</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">eligible employee</span> who is enrolled in the Program.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Participating employer</span>&#x201D; means an employer that facilitates a <span class="dictionary">payroll deposit retirement savings agreement</span> pursuant to this chapter for its <span class="dictionary">eligible employees</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Participating individual</span>&#x201D; means any individual who enrolls in the Program independent of an employment relationship with an <span class="dictionary">eligible employer</span>, maintains an account in the Program, and is not a <span class="dictionary">participating employee</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Payroll deposit retirement savings agreement</span>&#x201D; means an arrangement by which an employer allows employees to remit payroll deduction contributions to the Program.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Plan</span>&#x201D; means the Commonwealth Savers <span class="dictionary">Plan</span>.
		&#x201C;Program&#x201D; means the state-facilitated <span class="dictionary">IRA</span> savings program established in this chapter and administered by the <span class="dictionary">Plan</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Program Trust</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Program trust</span> fund established by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Program Trust Fund" href="/2.2-2752/">2.2-2752</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Wages</span>&#x201D; means any compensation, as such term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;219(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, that is paid to an <span class="dictionary">eligible employee</span> by his employer during the calendar year.</p></section></text><history>2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 556; 2024, c. 217.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
