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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Linda T. Puller

Clerk: Emily O'Brion
Staff: Patrick Cushing
Date of Meeting: February 22, 2008
Time and Place: Friday, 8:30 a.m. in Senate Room B

H.B. 3 Screened Family Day Home Provider List; created.

Patron: Tata

Screened Family Day Home Provider List. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish and maintain, on a website created by the Department, the Screened Family Day Home Provider List.  This bill provides that the List shall include the names of individuals who wish to offer their services as family day home providers, who are not required to be licensed or regulated, who voluntarily apply for inclusion on the List, and who have been found, after a national criminal history background check and review of the records maintained by the Child Protective Services registry, to have no convictions for certain offenses or founded complaints of child abuse or neglect. This bill also establishes a Screened Family Day Home Provider Fund to receive application fees and disburse funds for the administration of the List.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 63.2-1704.1, 63.2-1704.2, and 63.2-1704.3, relating to the Screened Family Day Home Provider List.

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H.B. 214 Public entities; rights of persons with disabilities.

Patron: Cole

Public entities; rights of persons with disabilities.  Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and free rights as other persons.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 51.5-44 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public entities; rights of persons with disabilities.

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H.B. 285 Adoptions; consent revocation period for parental placement.

Patron: Toscano

Consent revocation period for parental placement adoptions.  Provides that consent to an adoption may be revoked by a birth parent for up to seven days after it is executed. and that the seven day revocation period may be waived in writing at the time of consent provided that the child is at least 10 days old and the birth mother acknowledges having received independent legal counsel regarding the effect of such waiver. This bill eliminates the provision barring revocation after a child is 10 days old.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1234 of the Code of Virginia, relating to revocation of consent in parental placement adoptions.

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H.B. 853 Service dogs; persons training entitled to be accompanied thereby in public places.

Patron: Ebbin

Service dogs; training.  Adds persons who are conducting continuing training of guide dogs, hearing dogs, or service dogs to the list of persons who are entitled to the right to be accompanied by such dogs in listed public places.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 51.5-44 of the Code of Virginia, relating to service dogs; training.

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H.B. 861 Caregivers Grant Program; physician assistant or nurse practitioner to certify.

Patron: Ebbin

Virginia Caregivers Grant Program application; allow physician assistant or nurse practitioner to certify.  Allows that a licensed physician assistant or nurse practitioner may provide certification necessary for the Virginia Caregiver's Grant Program application.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-2203 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia Caregivers Grant Program application; allow physician assistant or nurse practitioner to certify.

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H.B. 871 Marriage & family programs; Department of Social Services to establish.

Patron: Johnson

Healthy marriages and strong families.  Authorizes the Department of Social Services to establish a program to support educational programs intended to promote healthy marriages and strong families. The bill also authorizes the Department, to the extent authorized by federal law, to allocate at least one percent of all funds received under the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program to support this program.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 63.2 a section numbered 63.2-214.1, relating to funding of programs that support healthy marriages and strong families.

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H.B. 934 Jail inmates; no parole for those convicted of multiple misdemeanors & sentenced more than 12 month.

Patron: Gilbert

No parole for jail inmates convicted of multiple misdemeanors.  Eliminates parole for a jail inmate whose misdemeanor offenses are committed on or after July 1, 2008. Currently, jail inmates sentenced to serve more than 12 months in jail for a combination of misdemeanor offenses are eligible for parole.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-153 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unavailability of parole for jail inmates for offenses committed on or after July 1, 2008.

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H.B. 1075 Alcoholic beverage control; powers and duties of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Patron: Suit

Alcoholic beverage control; powers and duties of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board generally; prohibited acts by licensees; exceptions.  Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations allowing an on-premises licensee to reduce the length of any suspension or reduce the amount of any civil penalty if the licensee can demonstrate that it provided certified alcohol server training to its employees. The bill also authorizes an on-premises restaurant licensee to use alcoholic beverages that the licensee otherwise is authorized to purchase and possess for the purposes of preparing and selling for on-premises consumption food products with a final alcohol content of more than one-half of one percent by volume, as long as such food products are sold and consumed by persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill provides that no ABC Board regulation may prohibit this. The bill prohibits a licensee from conducting a “happy hour” or related promotion at a licensed restaurant except during hours permitted by Board regulation. In addition, the ABC Board is prohibited from adopting regulations prohibiting any mixed beverage licensee from pre-mixing, either in a frozen drink dispenser of a type approved by the Board, or otherwise, mixed alcoholic beverages for purposes of sale and consumption on the licensed premises. The bill requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations providing for alternative methods for licensees to maintain and store business records that are subject to Board inspection, including methods for Board-approved electronic and off-site storage. The bill also defines the term "reasonable hours" for purposes of ABC Board inspection of retail licensee records. A mixed beverage licensee is authorized to mix wine, beer and spirits as an alcoholic beverage drink for a patron. The bill contains technical amendments.  HB 862 and HB 1269 were incorporated into this bill.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 4.1-100, 4.1-111, 4.1-204, 4.1-227, 4.1-324, and 4.1-325 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; powers and duties of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board generally; prohibited acts by licensees; exceptions.

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H.B. 1171 Alcoholic mixed beverages; grounds for suspension or revocation of license if lewd conduct allowed.

Patron: Cosgrove

Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited acts; grounds for suspension or revocation of mixed beverage license; exceptions. Clarifies what lewd or disorderly conduct is and also provides that the grounds for suspension or revocation of a mixed beverage license relating to lewd entertainment, strip tease acts, or full or partial nudity do not apply to persons operating theaters, concert halls, art centers, museums, or similar establishments that are devoted primarily to the arts or theatrical performances, when the performances that are presented are not obscene and are expressing matters of serious literary, artistic, scientific, or political value. Nor do the prohibitions on bad language, strip tease acts, or full or partial nudity apply to licensees operating theaters, concert halls, art centers, museums, or similar establishments that are devoted primarily to the arts or theatrical performances when the performances are not obscene and are expressing matters of serious literary, artistic, scientific, or political value.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 4.1-225, 4.1-226, 4.1-325, and 4.1-325.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; prohibited acts; grounds for suspension or revocation of mixed beverage license; exceptions.

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H.B. 1257 Child support enforcement; establishing Intensive Case Monitoring pilot programs.

Patron: Marsden

Department of Social Services to establish Intensive Case Monitoring pilot programs for child support enforcement. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to establish Intensive Case Monitoring pilot programs in four judicial districts within the Commonwealth to provide case management and other services to persons referred to the program by the court after failure to pay child support as required by an administrative action.

A BILL authorizing the Department of Social Services to establish Intensive Case Monitoring pilot programs for child support enforcement in order to reduce jail overcrowding, provide less costly child support enforcement alternatives, and maximize the potential for child support payment.

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H.B. 1489 Foster care plan; eliminates requirement for child placed out of his home be filed by public agency.

Patron: Fralin

Foster care plan.  Eliminates the requirement that a foster care plan for a child placed out of his home be filed by a public agency, other than a local board of social services, designated by a community policy and management team. Currently, such agencies must file a foster care plan when placing a child through an agreement with the child's parents or guardians where legal custody remains with the parents or guardians.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-281, 16.1-282, and 16.1-282.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to foster care plan.

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H.B. 1562 Alcoholic beverage control; allows transfer of ABC license for purchaser of a licensed premises.

Patron: Scott, J.M.

Alcoholic beverage control; transfer of licenses.  Allows for the transfer of an ABC license upon application by a bona fide purchaser of a licensed premises under certain conditions. Bona fide purchasers whose license transfer application is granted by the Board shall, at the time for renewal of the license, meet all of the requirements for initial licensure. The bill provides that the ABC Board may not grant a license transfer to an applicant against whom there is pending in the courts or before the Board a charge for violation of the provisions of this title or Board regulations. Additionally, the Board may refuse to grant a license transfer for such causes as are specified in § 4.1-222.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-212 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; transfer of licenses; permit required.

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