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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56255</law_id><section_number>9.1-407</section_number><catch_line>Training</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="9.1">Commonwealth Public Safety</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Line of Duty Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any employee entitled to benefits under this chapter shall receive training within 30 days of his employment, and again every two years thereafter, concerning the benefits available to himself or his beneficiary in case of disability or death in the line of duty. The Virginia Retirement System and the Department of Human Resource Management, in consultation with the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, shall develop training information to be distributed to employers. The employer shall be responsible for providing the training. Such training shall not count toward in-service training requirements for <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Powers and duties of the Board and the Department" href="/9.1-102/">9.1-102</a> and shall include, but not be limited to, the general rules for intestate succession described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Course of descents generally; right of Commonwealth if no other heir" href="/64.2-200/">64.2-200</a> that may be applicable to the distribution of benefits provided under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Payments to beneficiaries of certain deceased law-enforcement officers, firefighters, etc., and retirees" href="/9.1-402/">9.1-402</a>.</p></section></text><history>2006, c. 535; 2014, cc. 115, 490; 2016, c. 677; 2017, c. 439.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
