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2012 SESSION
Chairman: Stephen H. Martin
Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: J.Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: January 19, 2012
Time and Place: Thursday, 8:30 am -- Senate Room B
Patron: Black
Disease prevention and control; Lyme disease. Adds both confirmed and suspected cases of Lyme disease to the list of diseases required to be reported to the Department of Health.
Patron: Favola
Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Broadens eligibility for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program by including students whose Expected Family Contribution, as calculated by the federal government using the family's financial information reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is no more than $12,000. Currently the program is available only to students whose Expected Family Contribution is no more than $8,000.
Patron: Howell
Nursing homes; involuntary discharge notification. Requires that a copy of the written notice of intent to involuntarily discharge a patient from a nursing home also be sent to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Also contains a technical correction.
Patron: Edwards
Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program. Establishes the Two-Year College Scholarship Match Program to provide matching funds to two-year college foundations and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Funds paid shall not exceed $5 million, in aggregate, in any fiscal year. These funds shall be used to award scholarships to students who (i) are domiciled residents of Virginia and (ii) are enrolled in an associate degree program in a Virginia two-year college studying science, technology, engineering, math, education, or nursing. This will only become effective upon an appropriation of general funds effectuating the purposes of the bill passed by the 2012 General Assembly.
Patron: Miller, J.C.
Third grade SOLs; math and English only. Requires the Board of Education to require only math and English Standards of Learning for third graders.
Patron: Miller, J.C.
Public school enrollment; military children. Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Patron: Barker
Collection of forensic evidence; consent. Allows the collection of forensic evidence in cases of suspected sexual assault where the alleged victim may not be legally capable of giving consent.
Patron: Ebbin
Human trafficking; information for public schools. Requires the Board of Education, with assistance from the Department of Social Services, to provide awareness and training materials for local school divisions on human trafficking, including strategies for the prevention of trafficking of children.
Patron: Norment
Physical education; JROTC participation fulfills requirement. Requires local school boards to accept participation in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps as fulfillment of any high school physical education requirement.
Patron: Marsh
Virginia Center for School Safety; antibullying training. Requires the Virginia Center for School Safety to provide training on antibullying tactics to public school personnel. The bill also allows the VCSS to include in its audits of school safety a survey of student safety concerns regarding bullying, gang activity, and acts of violence.
Patron: Smith
Teachers without continuing contract status. Shifts the date of effective contract renewal for those teachers without continuing contract status from April 15 to June 15.
Patron: Blevins
Disclosure of records related to marriages, divorces, and annulments. Reduces the period of time that must pass before records related to marriages and divorces may become public information from 50 years to 25 years and provides that annulments may become public information after 25 years.
Patron: Blevins
Death records. Reduces the amount of time that must pass before death records may become public information from 50 years to 25 years.
Patron: Carrico
Early education; parental obligation. Requires that the parent of a child attending a grant funded preschool education program shall satisfactorily complete all parenting classes or courses offered by the preschool education program. Any child whose parent does not satisfactorily complete such parenting classes or courses shall be removed from the program.
Patron: McDougle
Institutions of higher education; crisis and emergency management plans. Increases the Department of Emergency Management's oversight of institutional crisis and emergency management plans by requiring institutions to certify in writing to the Department that the required annual reviews and functional exercises have been conducted.
Patron: Barker
Student records; mental health. Clarifies that an institution of higher education may require that any accepted student provide a complete student record, including any mental health record, from not only his high school but also any other institution of higher education.
Patron: Hanger
Two-Year Transfer Grant Program; Expected Family Contribution. Increases eligibility for the Two-Year Transfer Grant to students with financial need, defined by an Expected Family Contribution of no more than $12,000, rather than the current $8,000, as calculated by the federal government using the family's financial information reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
Patron: Garrett
Commitment of sexually violent predators; probable cause hearing; use of video and audio communication system. Provides that the hearing to determine whether probable cause exists to believe that a person is a sexually violent predator who should be civilly committed may be conducted by using a two-way electronic video and audio communication system.
Patron: Wagner
In-state tuition; members of the Virginia National Guard. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard residing in Virginia shall be eligible for in-state tuition at a public institution of higher education. This is broader than the current provision, which requires a guard member to be (i) activated or mobilized or on temporary active orders for six months or more, (ii) stationed or assigned by military service to a work location in Virginia, and (iii) residing in Virginia.