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2010 SESSION
Chairman: Linda T. Puller
Clerk: Carol Shotton, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Patrick Cushing
Date of Meeting: February 19, 2010
Time and Place: Friday, 8:30 AM; Senate Room B, General Assembly Building
Patron: Miller, P.J.
Prisons; disposal of unclaimed personal property of prisoner. Provides that if any prisoner in a state, local or community correctional facility leaves personal property valued at less than $100 in the custody of such facility for 30 days upon being transferred to another facility, the director or sheriff, as the case may, may sell the property. The bill further provides that if any prisoner, upon being released or having escaped, leaves such property at the time of his release or escape, the Director or the sheriff, as the case may be, may sell such property at public sale or may otherwise dispose of the property. Currently, such property must be held for six months.
Patron: Toscano
Adoption assistance. Amends eligibility and application process requirements for adoption assistance; provides for separate maintenance, nonrecurring expense, and state special services payments; sets forth the requirements of each; and amends provisions governing changes in the amount of maintenance payments.
Patron: Marshall, D.W.
Prisoners; maintenance of highways; grass cutting. Authorizes the use of prisoner labor to maintain the medians or other nontraveled portions of state highways.
Patron: Scott, E.T.
Alcoholic beverage control; third party shipment of wine and beer. Creates a fullment warehouse license, which authorizes a third party located off the licensed premises and under the direction and control of the Virginia wine or beer shipper licensee to (i) solicit and receive orders for wine or beer, (ii) pack and ship wine or beer in accordance with a license or other approval by the Commonwealth or the state where located, and (iii) take other action as permitted by the Board. The bill creates a marketing portal license, which allows an authorized agricultural cooperative association to solicit and receive orders for wine or beer through the use of the Internet from persons in Virginia of behalf of holders of wine or beer shipper's licenses. The bill also prohibits licensed wholesalers or any person under common control of such licensee from obtaining the fullment warehouse license. The bill sets the annual license taxes for these two new licenses.
Patron: Peace
Foster care; plan to reduce. Requires the Governor and the Department of Social Services, together with other appropriate executive branch agencies, to develop a plan to increase permanent placements of children with families to reduce the number of children in foster care by 25 percent by 2020.
Patron: Toscano
Consent to parental placement adoption; out of state placements. Allows a birth parent who is located in the Commonwealth to waive his right to consent to the adoption of his child pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth and elect to exercise consent pursuant to the laws of the receiving state. Consent shall be made under oath, in writing, and signed by the parent, and shall expressly state that the parent waving consent has received independent legal counsel from an attorney licensed in Virginia advising him of the laws of the Commonwealth and the laws of the receiving state.
Patron: Greason
Alcoholic beverage control; possession without a license; exemptions. Adds a license exemption for any dining areas or private rooms of residents in a licensed assisted living facility that will allow the assisted living facility to provide alcoholic beverages to the residents at the facility. Under current law, no alcoholic beverages shall be kept or allowed to be kept upon any premises of any place where food or refreshments of any kind are furnished for compensation.
Patron: Stolle
Work by prisoners; removal of graffiti, etc. Allows prisoners confined to jail to work on private property to remove graffiti in those localities which have adopted an ordinance undertaking such projects.
Patron: Stolle
Workforces; private property. Allows a local workforce to perform work on private property owned or occupied by elderly or indigent persons if the property is identified by a citizens housing advisory committee as needing rehabilitation or repair and the property owner consents to the work.
Patron: Jones
Alcoholic beverage control; tasting events at government stores. Authorizes distilled spirits and farm winery wine tasting events to be conducted at government stores under certain circumstances.
Patron: Keam
Entrustment agreements. Clarifies requirements for court approval of an entrustment agreement terminating parental rights and authorizing a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency to consent to the adoption of a child. This bill also clarifies the requirement that a local board or child-placing agency provide information about adoption, its legal effects, and the alternatives to adoption the birth mother and, if reasonably available, the birth father of a child to be placed for adoption.
Patron: Cline
Possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages while operating a school bus; penalty. Provides that any person who possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage while operating a school bus transporting children is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.