AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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and shall be responsible for directing all state mandated public health programs

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who is transferred from state to local employment in accordance with a contract authorized by this section, and who is a member of the Virginia Retirement System at the time of the transfer, shall continue to be a member of the Virginia Retirement System during the period of local employment. Any such transferred employee shall remain a member of the Virginia Retirement System under the same terms and conditions as would apply if the transferred employee had remained a state employee, so long as the employee is employed with a local health department or returns to state employment. For purposes of any employment of the transferred employee as a state employee after local employment, the membership in the Virginia Retirement System during local employment shall be treated the same as any other membership in the Virginia Retirement System.

For any employee who is transferred to local employment in accordance with a contract authorized by this section, that employee's membership in the Virginia Retirement System during local employment shall be treated the same as any other membership in the Virginia Retirement System. The local governing body shall collect and pay all employee and employer contributions to the Virginia Retirement System for retirement and group life insurance in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title 51.1 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.

Any city that is receiving local health services from a county that contracts with the Commonwealth to provide local health services pursuant to this section may continue to receive local health services from that county. State funds for the operation of health services and facilities to any such city shall continue to be allocated as if such services were provided in a county without such a contract. Any existing contracts between any city and any county which contracts with the state pursuant to this section shall continue unless and until amended by the affected jurisdictions.

FLOOR AMENDMENT (HOWELL) AGREED TO BY SENATE

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The power to contract conferred by this provision shall not be deemed to confer any additional authority for any county providing local health services to impose fees for local health services.