Department of Human Resources

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§ 2283. Department of Human Resources

(a) The Department of Human Resources is created in the Agency of Administration. In addition to other responsibilities assigned to it by law, the Department is responsible for fulfilling the payroll functions and for the provision of centralized human resources management services for State government, including the administration of a classification and compensation system for State employees under chapter 13 of this title and the performance of duties assigned to the Commissioner of Human Resources under chapter 27 of this title. All agencies and departments of the State that receive services from the Department of Human Resources shall be charged for those services through an assessment payable to the Human Resources Internal Service Fund on a basis established by the Commissioner of Human Resources and with the approval of the Secretary of Administration.

(b) The Department of Human Resources shall maintain a central payroll office, which shall be the successor to and continuation of the payroll functions of the Department of Finance and Management.

(c)(1) There is established in the Department of Human Resources a Human Resource Services Internal Service Fund to consist of revenues from charges to agencies, departments, and similar units of Vermont State government and to be available to fund the costs of the consolidated human resource services in the Department of Human Resources.

(2) The rate of the charges shall be proposed by the Commissioner of Human Resources, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Administration. Proposed rates of charges shall be based upon the cost of operations associated with human resource services provided to agencies, departments, and similar units of Vermont State government. (Added 1971, No. 92, § 9, eff. June 1, 1971; amended 1987, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 18, eff. June 13, 1988; 1995, No. 123 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 6, 1996; 2003, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 2007, No. 7, § 2; 2009, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § E.100.1, eff. June 2, 2009; 2011, No. 63, § E.104; 2015, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § E.108, eff. June 8, 2016.)


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