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2018 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB5002 (Senate Committee Approved)

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Virginia Management Fellows Program (language only)

Item 475 #1s

Item 475 #1s

Central Appropriations
Central Appropriations

Language

Page 423, line 49, strike "The Secretary of Finance shall contract".

Page 423, line 50, strike "with Virginia Tech for the continuation of the program.".

Page 424, line 3, following "." insert "Existing state employees who would otherwise meet the criteria for the program shall not be precluded from consideration for participation in the program.  Following the inaugural cohort's completion of the program, the Secretary of Finance shall deliver a report to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by the first day of the next regular General Assembly session detailing the program's efficacy in helping to meet the state's overall employee recruitment, retention and succession planning objectives."



Explanation

(This amendment provides funding of $311,000 the first year and $415,000 the second year from the general fund for a new cohort of the Virginia Management Fellows program. The amendment also adds language permitting the Secretary of Finance to contract with any university for the continuation of the program, and requires the Secretary of Finance to prepare a report to be delivered to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees, following the completion of the program's first cohort, by the start of the next regular General Assembly Session, detailing the efficacy of the program in helping to meet the state's overall recruitment, retention, and succession planning objectives, and clarifies that existing state employees, who otherwise meet the program's academic criteria, are not precluded from participation in the program.)