Bill Text: VA SB177 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals; employee destinations, payment policies, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) [SB177 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-SB177-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 177 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 8, 2024 A BILL to direct the Department of Human Resource Management to amend its policies relating to employee designations, pay, and benefits for nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals. ---------- Patron-- Favola ---------- Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) shall amend its policies to authorize the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and state psychiatric hospitals to designate as full-time employees nursing staff and psychiatric technicians who work at least 36 hours per week. The Department's policies shall not require reductions in pay or other benefits for such employees based solely on the fact that the employee works 36 hours per week.