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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Linda T. Puller

Clerk: Eric Bingham
Staff: Sarah Stanton
Date of Meeting: February 21, 2014
Time and Place: 8:30 AM, Senate Room B

H.B. 507 Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage special event lecenses for art education & exhibition.

Patron: Hodges

Alcoholic beverage control; annual banquet license for wine and beer. Expands the annual mixed beverage special events license to a duly organized private nonprofit corporation or association operating an art education and exhibition facility. 

 A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-210 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage special event licenses.

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H.B. 520 Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families, State Executive Council for; membership.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership. Removes the Governor's Special Advisor on Children's Services from and adds a juvenile and domestic relations district court judge to be appointed by the Governor to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families. The bill clarifies technical appointment processes.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-2648 of the Code of Virginia, relating to State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; membership.

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H.B. 521 Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; members of state and local advisory team.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; state and local advisory team; membership. Provides that nonstate agency members of state and local advisory teams established to advise the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families shall be limited to no more than two consecutive three year terms.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-5201 of the Code of Virginia, relating to comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; state and local advisory team; membership.

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H.B. 522 Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; appeals.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; appeals. Requires community policy and management teams to establish policies and procedures for appeals by youth and their families of decisions made by local family assessment and planning teams regarding services to be provided to the youth and family pursuant to an individual family services plan.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-5206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; appeals.

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H.B. 664 Blind persons; repeals requirement that DBVI maintain registry of persons in Commonwealth.

Patron: Brink

Registry of persons who are blind. Repeals the requirement that the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired maintain a registry of persons in the Commonwealth who are blind.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 51.5-72 and 51.5-75 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 51.5-68 and 51.5-69 of the Code of Virginia, relating to registry of blind persons.

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H.B. 683 Investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions.

Patron: Herring

Investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions. Requires local departments of social services and local school divisions to develop written interagency agreements for the investigation of all complaints of child abuse or neglect. Currently, local departments and local school divisions must enter into written interagency agreements for investigation of complaints of child abuse and neglect involving school personnel only. This bill incorporates HB 1204.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1511 of the Code of Virginia, relating to investigation of alleged child abuse and neglect; agreements with school divisions.

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H.B. 709 Child abuse and neglect investigations; time for determination.

Patron: Gilbert

Child abuse and neglect investigations; time for determination. Provides for an extension of the time period during which a local department of social services must determine if a report of child abuse or neglect is founded from 60 to 90 days in cases in which the investigation is being conducted in cooperation with a law-enforcement agency and both parties agree that circumstances so warrant.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to child abuse and neglect investigations; time for determination.

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H.B. 780 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program; distribution of benefits.

Patron: Wilt

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program; distribution of benefits; restrictions. Provides that the Department of Social Services shall distribute TANF benefits only in the form of debit cards or direct deposits into savings or checking accounts and prohibits the distribution of TANF benefits in the form of a paper check. The bill expands restrictions on the use of TANF cash benefits.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 63.2-600 and 63.2-621 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program; distribution of benefits; restrictions.

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H.B. 888 Uniform assessment instrument; regulations.

Patron: Peace

Uniform assessment instrument; regulations. Transfers authority for promulgating regulations governing uniform assessments for residents of assisted living facilities from the Board of Social Services to the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1804 of the Code of Virginia, relating to uniform assessment instrument; regulations.

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H.B. 890 Social worker; family-services specialists & qualified equivalent workers allowed to perform tasks.

Patron: Peace

Social worker. Allows family-services specialists and qualified equivalent workers to perform tasks currently limited to social workers. The bill expands the authority of the Adult Protective Services Unit to establish minimum standards of training and educational opportunities for all workers in the field of adult protective services, which minimum standards currently apply to social workers. The bill changes the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS employment requirement for a baccalaureate degree from "social work" positions to "family-services-specialist" positions. The bill adds family-services specialists to the list of individuals required to report suspicions of child abuse or neglect and allows DMAS-designated assessors to serve in place of social workers on community-based screening teams. The bill contains an emergency clause.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-330, 51.5-148, 63.2-219, 63.2-1225, 63.2-1226, 63.2-1231, and 63.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the term "social worker."

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EMERGENCY

H.B. 1052 Method of execution; Director of DOC certifies that lethal injection isn't available, electrocution.

Patron: Miller

Method of execution. Provides that if the Director of the Department of Corrections certifies that lethal injection is not available as a method of execution, electrocution shall be used instead.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-234 of the Code of Virginia, relating to method of execution.

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H.B. 1076 Individuals with disabilities; terminology.

Patron: Wilt

Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces the term "functional and central nervous system disabilities" with the term "physical and sensory disabilities" and changes the name of the Long-Term Rehabilitative Case Management System to the community rehabilitation case management system.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 51.5-116, 51.5-119, 51.5-123, and 51.5-124 of the Code of Virginia, relating to individuals with disabilities; terminology.

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H.B. 1141 Alcoholic beverage control; creates annual arts venue event license.

Patron: Knight

Alcoholic beverage control; annual arts venue event license. Creates a new annual arts venue event license and sets out the privileges of this new license and the state and local license taxes. The bill defines an arts venue as a commercial or nonprofit establishment that is open to the public and in which works of art are sold or displayed.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 4.1-100, 4.1-206, 4.1-231, and 4.1-233 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; annual arts venue event license.

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