The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
004
:
DEPARTMENTS, DIVISIONS, AND BOARDS
(Cite as: 3 V.S.A. § 2283)
-
§ 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; 2011, No. 63, § E.104; 2015, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § E.108, eff. June 8, 2016.)