republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-177.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. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 177	Virginia SB 177 (2024)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	45	9	2024-01-08	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6f188ea8-2372-4e79-803b-71cde17c209a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB177	5b33338622e095f65d7ef523fac0cbdb3cffa850eecdf79a4635fbdb5167ac34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 177 (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. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0342 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108155D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103981D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24103981D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. SB177ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103981D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-24 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-24 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB177)
• 2024-02-06 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-08 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-08 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-08 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-08 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB177E
• 2024-02-08 Printed as engrossed 24103981D-E
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Assigned sub: Health Professions referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB177E)
• 2024-02-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-27 Reported from Health and Human Services with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Committee substitute printed 24108155D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Committee substitute agreed to 24108155D-H1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB177H1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Passed by for the day
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB177H1)
• 2024-03-05 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2024-03-05 Title replaced 24108155D-H1
• 2024-03-08 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB177ER) passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB177ER)
• 2024-03-08 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-09 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 342 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f188ea8-2372-4e79-803b-71cde17c209a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).