§ 23.1-1024 Covered institutions; operational authority; human resources; miscellaneous personnel matters
A. Each covered institution shall base all appointments, promotions, and tenure decisions upon merit and fitness, to be ascertained, as far as possible, by the competitive rating of qualifications by that institution.
B. No establishment of a position or rate of pay or change in rate of pay shall become effective except on order of the appointing covered institution.
C. No current or prospective participating covered employee of any covered institution shall be required, as a condition of employment, to smoke or use tobacco products on the job or abstain from smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of his employment, provided that this subsection shall not apply to those classes of employees to which § 27-40.1 or 51.1-813 is applicable.
History
This law was first created in 2005. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 933 and 945 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2016, chapter 588.
2005, cc. 933, 945, § 23-38.118; 2016, c. 588.