Local health directors; evaluation criteria, reports.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the consequences for failing to adhere to corrective plans or specify how often evaluation criteria are updated after October 1, 2026.

Evaluating Local Health Directors

This bill requires the State Health Commissioner to establish evaluation criteria for local health directors and issue annual reports based on these evaluations.

What This Bill Does

• The bill tells the State Health Commissioner to create evaluation criteria for each local health director by October 1, 2026.
• Each year, the Commissioner must evaluate local health directors using those criteria.
• After evaluating, the Commissioner has to write a report about each director's performance and give it to them.
• If a director does not meet the standards set by the Commissioner, they will receive a corrective plan.

Who It Names or Affects

• Local health directors who lead local health departments in Virginia.
• The State Health Commissioner who must create evaluation criteria and write reports for local health directors.

Terms To Know

Evaluation Criteria

Rules or standards used to judge how well someone is doing their job.

Corrective Plan

A plan given to a local health director if they are not meeting the required performance standards, which includes ways to improve and be monitored more closely.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a local health director fails to follow their corrective plan.
• It is unclear how often the evaluation criteria will be updated after October 1, 2026.
• There are no details on which members of the General Assembly receive these reports.

Official Summary Text

Local health directors; evaluation criteria; reports.
Requires the State Health Commissioner to establish evaluation criteria for each local health director heading a local health department no later than October 1, 2026. The bill further requires the Commissioner to evaluate each local health director on an annual basis using such criteria and issue a written report that includes findings of such evaluation to each director and, in certain cases, to the General Assembly.

Current Bill Text

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
32.1-30.1
, relating to local health directors; evaluation criteria; reports.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered
32.1-30.1
as follows:

§
32.1-30.1
. Local health directors;
evaluation criteria; report
s
.

A.
On or before October 1, 2026,
the Commissioner shall
establish

evaluation criteria for
each local health director heading a local health
department
pursuant to §
32.1-30
.

Such
criteria shall include
minimum

performance
standards

required for each such
local
health
director
. Such minimum performance standards may include consideration of standardized public health outcomes, operational metrics, and equity indicators for each local
hea
lth
department
. Such criteria may be updated
annually or
as needed.

B.
The Commissioner shall
evaluate each local health director on an annual basis using
the
criteria
established pursuant to subsection A
.
The Commissioner shall issue
to each such director
a written evaluation report
that
i
ncludes findings of such evaluation. If such evaluation
has a finding that minimum performance standards have not been met
, the C
ommissioner shall issue a corrective plan for such local
health
director with such evaluation. Such plan shall include
increased monitoring of
such local
health
director and his local
health
department.

C. All written evaluation reports issued pursuant to subsection B
wherein a corrective plan has also been issued along with such report
shall also be submitted to the General Assembly
.