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HB 1555 Agency directors; human resource training and agency succession planning.
Introduced by: R. Lee Ware | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Agency directors; human resources training and succession planning. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) to administer training programs to familiarize agency directors with state human resource policies, such as compensation management, benefits administration, and resources available at the Department. The bill requires (i) the Department to offer training programs at least twice per year, (ii) each agency director to attend a training program with the agency chief human resource officer within six months after the director's appointment and thereafter at least once every four years, (iii) the agency chief human resource officer to provide subsequent training on agency-specific human resource policies, and (iv) each agency director to develop and submit annually to the Department an agency succession plan for key personnel, executive positions, and employees nearing retirement. The bill also requires public institutions of higher education to prepare a succession plan for presentation to the board of visitors with a copy to the Department.
FULL TEXT
- 12/29/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103358D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104801D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1555ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/29/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103358D
- 12/29/16 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/11/17 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
- 01/26/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/17 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/31/17 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104801D-H1
- 01/31/17 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/01/17 House: Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement
- 02/02/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 House: Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/17 House: Read first time
- 02/06/17 House: Read second time
- 02/06/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17104801D-H1
- 02/06/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1555H1
- 02/07/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/13/17 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/16/17 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/17 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/21/17 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/21/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/21/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/17 House: Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 100-N)
- 02/22/17 House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 100-N)
- 02/23/17 Senate: Senate receded from amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/17 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1555ER)
- 03/07/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/13/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- 03/13/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/16/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 527 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/16/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0527)