HB 1057 Virginia House of Delegates · 2018 Regular Session

Sexual harassment training; requirement for legislative branch once every two calendar years.

Summary
Requires General Assembly members, full-time legislative staff of General Assembly members compensated with state appropriations, and full-time employees of each legislative branch agency to complete sexual harassment training once every calendar year through the Commonwealth of Virginia Learning Center administered by the Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM). Persons elected to the General Assembly or commencing or recommencing full-time employment in the legislative branch will have 90 days from the election or their dates of hire to complete the training. The bill requires DHRM to maintain electronic records for five years for each person successfully completing sexual harassment training. Each record will include the name of the person completing the training, the name of the state agency that employs him, the date on which the training was completed, and the name of the training course. The bill directs that each agency head in the legislative branch be responsible for ensuring that the agency's full-time employees complete the training as required. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2018
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Governor
Introduced Jan 10, 2018 Last action Jan 26, 2018
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Jan 10, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rules
legislature
Jan 10, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102219D
legislature
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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