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2009 SESSION
Chairman: Linda T. Puller
Clerk: Donna Weaver
Staff: Patrick Cushing
Date of Meeting: February 20, 2009
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. Senate Room B
Patron: Armstrong
Virginia Child Protection Accountability System. Establishes the Virginia Child Protection Accountability System to collect and make available to the public information on the response to reported cases of child abuse in the Commonwealth. This bill requires the Department of Social Services to submit certain information for inclusion in the System.
Patron: Albo
Alcoholic Beverage Control; pilot project. Creates a two-year pilot project for certain mixed beverage licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The bill allows a participating mixed beverage restaurant licensee to use alternative calculation for the food-to-beverage ratio based on volume by proof gallon. The bill sets out the parameters of the pilot project and requires the ABC Board to report its findings and any recommendations based on the results of the project to the chairs of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services on or before July 1, 2011. The bill defines proof gallon.
Patron: Athey
Suspected adult abuse; photographing of injuries. Requires local departments to take or cause to be taken photographs, video recordings, or appropriate medical imaging of a suspected victim of adult neglect, abuse, or exploitation. This bill also provides that, if the adult is determined to be incapable of making an informed decision and of giving informed consent and either has no legal representative, or the legal representative is the suspected perpetrator of the neglect, abuse, or exploitation, consent may be given by an agent appointed under an advanced medical directive or medical power of attorney or other person authorized to make decisions on behalf of an adult deemed incapable of making an informed decision.
Patron: Ward
Foster care; each child to be equipped with luggage. Requires the Department of Social Services to identify and work together with faith-based, volunteer, private, and community-based organizations to develop and implement the "A Place of My Own" program, to seek and accept donations and coordinate the distribution of luggage for children in foster care. This bill provides that the Program may accept grants, gifts, donations, and bequests to support the program. This bill also creates the "A Place of My Own" Fund to consist of grants, donations, and bequests from public and private sources, to be used solely to support the activities of the Program.
Patron: Griffith
Alcoholic beverage control; unlawful possession; affirmative defense. Provides that no person to whom alcoholic beverages may not lawfully be sold is in violation if such consumption, purchase, or possession was allowed under current exceptions in ABC law (i.e., drank it at home with his parents or spouse, etc.). The bill contains technical amendments.