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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Frank W. Wagner

Clerk: Maryann Horch, Eric Bingham
Staff: Sarah Stanton
Date of Meeting: February 15, 2013
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m. - Senate Room B

H.B. 1640

Patron: Greason

Child care providers; background checks for eligibility for child care subsidy payments. Requires any person seeking to enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services for the provision of child care services for which subsidy payments may be paid to undergo a background check, and authorizes the dissemination of criminal history record information to the Department of Social Services or local department of social services for the purpose of screening such individuals.

H.B. 1667

Patron: Crockett-Stark

Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage licenses for certain properties. Authorizes the ABC Board to grant mixed beverage licenses to certain properties located in Smyth County, notwithstanding the outcome of the liquor-by-the-drink referendum in those jurisdictions.

H.B. 1743

Patron: Brink

Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice after reaching 18 years of age and who were committed or entrusted to the care of a local board of social services or child-placing agency at the time they were committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice. The bill expands the definition of "independent living services" to include services provided to a person who is at least 18 years of age but who has not yet reached the age of 21 years who, immediately prior to his commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice, was in the custody of the local board of social services. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act passed during the 2013 Session of the General Assembly, which becomes law.

H.B. 2045

Patron: Robinson

Foster care and adoption; decisions regarding federal benefits; appeal to the Commissioner. Establishes a right to review by the Commissioner of Social Services of any decision of a local board of social services granting, denying, or changing a benefit available to a child in foster care for any individual whose claim for benefits related to foster care services available pursuant to state or federal law is denied or not acted upon by the local department with reasonable promptness.

H.B. 2268

Patron: Gilbert

Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of farm winery licensees. Allows a farm winery licensee to pre-mix wine to be served and sold for on-premises consumption at the retail establishments of the licensee.

H.B. 2271

Patron: Orrock

Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Requires the Department of Social Services to utilize all federal adoption bonus payments received in a fiscal year to support post-adoption services.

H.B. 2279

Patron: Fariss

Placement of children. Eliminates language providing that regulations of the Board of Social Services shall not prohibit placement of a nonresident child in a children's residential facility in the Commonwealth by a custodial parent who assumes full financial responsibility for the child prior to final approval of the placement pursuant to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children when the placement is made without the involvement of a public officer or agency.

H.B. 2284

Patron: Head

Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day-care center must submit to be exempt from the requirement that the applicant make his financial records available to the Commissioner of Social Services for review and eliminates requirement that the Commissioner investigate the financial responsibility of an applicant for renewal of a license as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day-care center. The bill contains an emergency clause.

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H.B. 2288

Patron: Crockett-Stark

Alcoholic beverage control; powers of Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; mixed beverage licenses. Authorizes the ABC Board, notwithstanding the requirement for a referendum, to grant a mixed beverage license to any establishment located on property within 1,500 feet of Interstate 81 on either frontage road between mile markers 75 and 86 in the County of Wythe.

H.B. 2300

Patron: Watson

Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Provides an exception from the tied house restrictions by allowing the granting of any retail license to a distillery licensee, or to an applicant for such license, or to a lessee of such person, a wholly owned subsidiary of such person, or its lessee under certain circumstances. Under current law, this exception is authorized for brewery and winery licensees.