Virginia Senate Joint Resolution 49 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ49ER)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Study; Department of Health Professions; need for additional micro-level, mezzo-level, and macro-level social workers and increased compensation; report. Requests that the Department of Health Professions convene a work group, which shall include certain stakeholders listed in the bill, to (i) identify the number of social workers needed in the Commonwealth to adequately serve the population; (ii) identify opportunities for the Commonwealth's social work workforce to successfully serve and respond to increasing biopsychosocial needs of individuals, groups, and communities in areas related to aging, child welfare, social services, military and veterans affairs, criminal justice, juvenile justice, corrections, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and other health and social determinants; (iii) gather information about current social workers in the Commonwealth related to level of education, school of social work attended, level of licensure, job title and classification, years of experience, gender, employer, and compensation; (iv) analyze the impact of compensation levels on social workers' job satisfaction and performance, as well as its impact on the likelihood of other persons entering the profession and any complications to such compensation levels caused by student debt; and (v) make recommendations for additional sources of funding to adequately compensate social workers and increase the number of social workers in the Commonwealth.

Social workers; DHP to study need for additional, etc., workers.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2020-03-03 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (73-Y 23-N) (Y: 73 N: 23 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - House - House: Reported from Rules (17-Y 1-N) (Y: 17 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reading waived (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ49ER)
2020-03-03	House	VOTE: Adoption (73-Y 23-N)
2020-03-03	House	Agreed to by House (73-Y 23-N)
2020-03-03	House	Taken up
2020-02-27	House	Reported from Rules (17-Y 1-N)
2020-02-03	House	Referred to Committee on Rules
2020-02-03	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-29	Senate	Read third time and agreed to by Senate by voice vote
2020-01-28	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2020-01-27	Senate	Reading waived (38-Y 0-N)
2020-01-24	Senate	Reported from Rules by voice vote
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105090D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SJ49
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SJ49+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SJ49ER+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0189SJ0049+SJ0049
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H20V0181+SJ0049
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1729+SJ0049