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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Linda T. Puller

Clerk: Maryann Horch, Nick Galvin
Staff: Sarah Stanton, Wenzel Cummings
Date of Meeting: February 11, 2011
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. / Senate Room B

H.B. 1496

Patron: Herring

Providing alcohol to an underage person. Provides that any person who purchases alcoholic beverages for or otherwise gives, provides, or willfully assists in the provision of alcoholic beverages to another person, knowing or having reason to know that such person was less than 21 years of age is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Current law does not address a violation committed when the violator has reason to know a person is underage.

H.B. 1613

Patron: Ward

Local prisoner programs; workforces in certain cemeteries.  Allows workforces to assist with maintaining privately owned, abandoned cemeteries.

H.B. 1979

Patron: Greason

Alcoholic Beverage Control; tax on wine and other alcoholic beverages; exceptions.  Provides an exception from payment of tax on alcoholic beverages for shipments of alcoholic beverages (i) out of state for resale outside the Commonwealth and (ii) from Virginia to consumers outside of Virginia for personal consumption and not for resale.  Current law provides the exception from payment of tax only for shipments to out-of-state wholesalers.

H.B. 2036

Patron: Peace

Release of persons from commitment on parole supervision. Changes from four weeks to 90 days the time by which the court services unit shall consult with the local department of social services prior to a person's release from commitment on parole supervision about the return of the person to the locality and the placement of the person. The bill also provides that the court services unit shall collaborate with the local department of social services to develop a plan that prepares the person for successful transition from the Department's commitment to the custody of the local department of social services. The plan shall identify the services necessary for such transition and how the services are to be provided.

H.B. 2040

Patron: Anderson

Corrections; use of inmate labor.  Authorizes the use of inmate labor at rest areas along the Interstate Highway System.

H.B. 2190

Patron: Ebbin

Department of Social Services; plan for the provision of services to victims of human trafficking.  Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a plan for the provision of services to victims of human trafficking.

H.B. 2202

Patron: Comstock

Child support arrearages.  Provides that the Division of Child Support Enforcement shall, in order to enhance enforcement, publish at regular intervals a list of delinquent parents who owe child support.

H.B. 2225

Patron: Wright

Department of Corrections; inmate trust accounts.  Requires the Department of Corrections to establish for each inmate a personal trust account consisting of 10 percent of any funds received by an inmate from any source until the account has a balance of $1,000. Funds in an inmate’s personal trust account shall be paid to the inmate upon parole or final discharge.

H.B. 2226

Patron: Wright

Alcoholic Beverage Control; notice for registered public objections to new licensee applications.  Requires public objections to new licensee applications be registered with the ABC Board within 30 days of initial publication of notice.

H.B. 2295

Patron: Englin

Alcoholic beverage control; definition of cider.  Creates two classes of cider by defining it as any beverage, carbonated or otherwise, obtained by the fermentation of the natural sugar content of apples (i) containing not more than 10 percent of alcohol by volume without chaptalization or (ii) containing not more than seven percent of alcohol by volume regardless of chaptalization. The bill defines "chaptalization" as a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation. The expanded definition of cider is to take into account the natural sweetness of certain Virginia apples.

H.B. 2376

Patron: Habeeb

Elimination of agency mandates.  Directs the Department of Social Services to eliminate mandates related to office space and facility requirements imposed on local departments of social services.

H.B. 2435

Patron: Habeeb

DOC; elimination of agency mandates.  Directs the Department of Corrections to eliminate mandates related to contract inmate classification reporting requirements imposed on localities.