republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-806.md

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Bill	Nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals; employee destinations, payment policies, etc.	Department of Human Resource Management; employee designation and payment policies; nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to 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 to permit state hospitals to use 12-hour shifts for such staff. The bill prohibits the Department from requiring reductions in pay or other benefits for such employees based solely on the fact that the employee works 36 hours per week. The bill also directs the Department to examine whether the policy change should be extended to comparable direct care positions in other executive branch agencies to improve recruitment and retention. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission and the Behavioral Health Commission and is identical to SB 177.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 806	Virginia HB 806 (2024)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	5	44	10	2024-01-09	2024-04-03	openstates	ocd-bill/126f5d52-0dfa-4228-a9a7-259f8a0ff3d5	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB806	44cd80b4dcb925ec007e6436594be94598957d959032f978b23dc6510b476aa8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 806 (2024) — Nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals; employee destinations, payment policies, etc.

Department of Human Resource Management; employee designation and payment policies; nursing staff at state psychiatric hospitals. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to 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 to permit state hospitals to use 12-hour shifts for such staff. The bill prohibits the Department from requiring reductions in pay or other benefits for such employees based solely on the fact that the employee works 36 hours per week. The bill also directs the Department to examine whether the policy change should be extended to comparable direct care positions in other executive branch agencies to improve recruitment and retention. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission and the Behavioral Health Commission and is identical to SB 177.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0304 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108164D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB806ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103982D (committee substitute) — source
5. Printed as engrossed 24103982D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (3-Y 96-N) — 3–95 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate receded from substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103982D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-27 Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB806)
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by House as amended HB806E
• 2024-02-08 Printed as engrossed 24103982D-E
• 2024-02-09 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-09 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB806E)
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Committee substitute printed 24108164D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-22 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB806S1)
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24108164D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB806S1 substitution
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-06 Senate substitute rejected by House 24108164D-S1 (3-Y 96-N)
• 2024-03-06 VOTE: REJECTED (3-Y 96-N)
• 2024-03-07 Senate receded from substitute (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB806ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 304 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304)
• 2024-04-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB806ER)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/126f5d52-0dfa-4228-a9a7-259f8a0ff3d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).