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2012 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Frank W. Wagner

Date of Meeting: February 24, 2012
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m., Senate Room B, GAB

H.B. 3

Patron: Marshall, R.G.

Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported.  Adds athletic coaches, directors, employees, and volunteers of private sports organizations and teams and administrators, employees, and volunteers of public or private day camps, youth centers, and youth recreation programs to the list of persons required to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the Department of Social Services.

H.B. 74

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Mandatory report of suspected child abuse; time limit.  Reduces the time limit for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect by mandated reporters from 72 hours to 24 hours. In addition, the bill provides that in cases in which the initial report of suspected abuse or neglect is made by a mandated reporter to the person in charge of the institution or department in which the mandated reporter works, as provided in current law, the person who receives the report shall notify the person who made the initial report when the suspected child abuse or neglect is reported to the local department or state hotline and of the name of the individual receiving the report and shall forward any communications or information about action taken regarding the report to the person who made the initial report.

H.B. 135

Patron: Kilgore

Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; State Executive Council; membership.  Adds two local government representatives to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families, increasing the number of local government representatives from three to five.

H.B. 270

Patron: Peace

Department for the Aging; public guardianship and conservator program.  Requires the Department for the Aging to adopt, as part of its public guardianship and conservator program, person-centered practice procedures that shall (i) focus on the preferences and needs of the individual receiving public guardianship services and (ii) empower and support the individual receiving public guardianship services, to the extent feasible, in defining the direction for his life and promoting self-determination and community involvement.

H.B. 466

Patron: Albo

Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising.  Provides that all lawfully erected outdoor alcoholic beverage signs shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pursuant thereto, and the Integrated Directional Sign Program administered by the Virginia Department of Transportation or its agents.  This bill is identical to SB 408.

H.B. 500

Patron: Dance

DSS; policies and procedures to protect personal identifying information of children in foster care; report. Requires local departments of social services to conduct annual credit checks on children aged 16 years and older who are in foster care to identify cases of identity theft or misuse of personal identifying information of such children and to resolve, to the greatest extent possible, cases of identity theft or misuse of personal identifying information of foster care children identified as a result of such credit checks. The bill also requires the Department to develop policies and procedures to protect personal identifying information of foster children aged 16 years and older to prevent identity theft by foster care providers and others who may have access to such information, and to report on its activities to implement the provisions of the act and any recommendations for legislative or regulatory changes necessary to implement the provisions of the act no later than December 1, 2012.

H.B. 970

Patron: Bell, Robert B.

Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse; public and private college employees. Adds any person employed by a public or private institution of higher education to the list of individuals required to report suspected abuse or neglect of a child.

H.B. 1237

Patron: Scott, E.T.

Mandatory reporting of child abuse; penalty. Adds individuals associated with or employed by any public organization responsible for the care, custody, or control of children to the list of individuals required to report suspected child abuse or neglect; reduces the time limit for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect by mandated reporters from 72 hours to 24 hours and increases the penalty for a second or subsequent failure to report from not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 to a fine of not less than $1,000; provides that, in cases evidencing acts of rape, sodomy, or object sexual penetration, a person who knowingly and intentionally fails to make the required report shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor; and provides that no mandatory reporter shall be required to make a report if the person has actual knowledge that the same matter has already been reported to the local department or the Department's toll-free child abuse and neglect hotline.