2025 SESSION

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25102055D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1803

House Amendments in [ ] - January 24, 2025

A BILL to direct the Department of Human Resource Management to convene a stakeholder advisory group to provide advice on establishing a career group for licensed behavior analysts; report.

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Patron Prior to Engrossment—Delegate Cohen

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Referred to Committee on General Laws

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) shall convene a stakeholder advisory group (the advisory group) to provide advice to the Department on establishing a career group and any other necessary associated defined roles within the health and human services occupational family for licensed behavior analysts, and those they may supervise, employed by the Commonwealth. The advisory group shall consist of representatives from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Department of Corrections, Department of Education, Department of Juvenile Justice, Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis, and any other relevant stakeholder groups. The advisory group shall submit its findings and recommendations to the Department no later than November 1, 2025. [ The Department shall establish such career group and any other necessary associated defined roles by July 1, 2026. ]