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2010 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Linda T. Puller

Staff: Patrick Cushing
Date of Meeting: February 26, 2010
Time and Place: Friday, 8:30 AM; Senate Room B, General Assembly Building

H.B. 311

Patron: O'Bannon

Hospitalization of inmates in local correctional facilities.  Repeals provisions dealing with determining (i) a defendant's competency to be sentenced after he has been convicted of a crime and (ii) whether an inmate who is in the custody of a local correctional facility needs to be involuntarily hospitalized for treatment of mental illness, and substantially incorporates these provisions into statutes dealing generally with determinations of a defendant's competency and the hospitalization of inmates in the custody of local correctional facilities. The bill sets forth the procedures that a court or a person having custody of an inmate must follow to determine whether treatment of mental illness is necessary.

H.B. 357

Patron: Ware, O.

Jail farms; transportation of prisoners.  Allows for a regional jail operated within Planning District Five (Roanoke Valley-Alleghany) to transport prisoners, upon their release, back to the locality where arrested or convicted.

H.B. 361

Patron: Ware, O.

Regional jails; disposition of fees for prisoners' keep.  Allows regional jails to retain fees collected for prisoners' keep instead of crediting those fees to the locality that incarcerated the inmate.

H.B. 411

Patron: Oder

Shaken baby syndrome; distribution of information. Requires the Department of Social Services to make information about shaken baby syndrome, its effects, and resources for help and support for caretakers available in a printable format, and information about how to acquire such information in an audiovisual format, available on a website maintained by the Department, and to inform every child welfare program licensed by the Department about the available information. This bill also provides that information about shaken baby syndrome shall be made available to foster and adoptive parents, and staff of child day programs and children's residential facilities.

H.B. 588

Patron: Landes

Alcoholic beverage control; wine liter tax. Requires the portion of the wine liter tax collected from the sale of wine produced by farm wineries to be deposited in the Virginia Wine Promotion Fund for use by the Wine Board.

H.B. 620

Patron: Orrock

Alcoholic beverage control; agents of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.  Designates as agents of the ABC Board any licensed distiller who blends alcoholic beverages and who operates a musem on the licensed premises that is located on the premises or grounds of a local historic building or site.

H.B. 630

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.

H.B. 718

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.

H.B. 736

Patron: Albo

Virginia Child Protection Accountability System.  Adds the Department of State Police and circuit courts to the list of entities required to report information for inclusion in the Virginia Child Protection Accountability System.

H.B. 1031

Patron: Pollard

Correctional enterprises; intentional violations constitute malfeasance; exception.  Allows for an exception to required state purchases through correctional enterprises where outside purchases amounting to malfeasance were intended to reduce the expenditure of public moneys.

H.B. 1099

Patron: Sickles

Employment for individuals with autism; program goals.  Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Rehabilitative Services and local community services boards and behavioral health authorities, to establish specific goals for programs to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders to obtain and sustain employment.

H.B. 1161

Patron: Cosgrove

Jailer issued identification for prisoners. Allows sheriffs, jail superintendents and jail administrators to issue a special identification card to prisoners who do not possess valid id at release. All costs shall be paid by the prisoner.

H.B. 1293

Patron: Cleaveland

Alcoholic beverage control; exemptions from licensure; consumption by underaged persons.  Clarifies that a person in his residence may serve or give to his guests or family members lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages when (i) such guests are 21 years of age or older or are accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse who is 21 years of age or older, (ii) the consumption or possession of such alcoholic beverages by family members or such guests occurs only in such residence where the alcoholic beverages are allowed to be served or given, and (iii) such service or gift is in no way a shift or device to evade ABC laws. Currently, the law requires only that (i) such guests are 21 years of age or older or are accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse who is 21 years of age or older and (ii) such service or gift is in no way a shift or device to evade ABC laws.