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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chairman: Frank W. Wagner

Clerk: Eric Bingham
Staff: Sarah Stanton, David May
Date of Meeting: February 20, 2015
Time and Place: Friday 8:00 AM, Senate Room B
Update - The time has been moved to 8AM

H.B. 1570 Child day centers and family day homes; regulations, national background check required, report.

Patron: Orrock

Unlicensed, unregistered family day homes; notice to Department of Social Services and notice to parents. Requires fingerprint-based national criminal history records checks for licensed child day centers and family day homes. The bill also requires family day homes providing care for five or more children, other than the children of the provider or children that reside in the home, for compensation to be licensed by the Department of Social Services. Currently, only family day homes providing care for six or more children, other than the children of the provider or children that reside in the home, are required to be licensed. The bill also requires local commissioners of the revenue or other local business license officials to report to the Department of Social Services on a quarterly basis the name, address, and contact information for any child day center or family day home to which a business license was issued; requires the Department of Social Services to promulgate regulations requiring licensed and registered child day centers and family day homes to notify the parent of every child enrolled in the child day center or family day home, in writing, of any emergency situation that occurs while the child is receiving care; and requires all unlicensed and unregistered family day homes, other than those in which all of the children receiving care are related by blood or marriage to the provider, to provide written notice to the parents of every child receiving care stating that the family day home is not regulated by the Department of Social Services and referring the parents to a website maintained by the Department for additional information regarding licensed, registered, and unlicensed, unregistered family day homes. The bill also requires all child day centers and family day homes that enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services to provide child care services that are funded, in whole or in part, by the Child Care and Development Block Grant to comply with all requirements established by federal law and regulation. The bill also requires the Department of Social Services to develop recommendations related to appropriate criminal and civil penalties for individuals who operate or engage in the conduct of a child day center or family day home without first obtaining a license or after such license has been revoked or has expired and not been renewed, or who operate or engage in the conduct of a child day center or family day home serving more children than the maximum stipulated in the license, and that the Department report on the requirements established in the Child Care and Development Block Grant to the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions by December 1, 2015.

 A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 15.2-2292, 19.2-389, 19.2-392.02, 63.2-100, 63.2-1702, 63.2-1704, 63.2-1720 through 63.2-1723, 63.2-1725, and 63.2-1734 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 63.2-1701.1, 63.2-1704.1, 63.2-1720.1 and 63.2-1721.1, relating to regulation of child care providers.

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H.B. 1645 Alcoholic beverage control; expands bed and breakfast licenses.

Patron: Pogge

Alcoholic beverage control; bed and breakfast licenses. Expands the privileges of a bed and breakfast license by authorizing the licensee to permit the consumption of lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages by persons to whom overnight lodging is being provided (i) in bedrooms or private guest rooms or (ii) in other designated areas of the bed and breakfast  establishment. The bill defines "other designated areas" to include outdoor dining areas, whether or not contiguous to the licensed premises, which may have more than one means of ingress and egress to an adjacent public thoroughfare, provided that such outdoor dining areas are under the control of the licensee and approved by the Board. Such noncontiguous designated areas shall not be approved for any retail license issued to a brewery, distillery, or winery.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; bed and breakfast licenses.

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H.B. 1814 Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio.

Patron: DeSteph

Alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio. Provides that the combined gross receipts from the sale of food consumed on the premises and nonalcoholic beverages served on the premises by mixed beverage restaurant licensees, mixed beverage caterer's licensees, and mixed beverage limited caterer's licensees must amount to at least 75 percent of the gross receipts from the sale of mixed beverages.

 A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-210 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; food-beverage ratio.

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H.B. 1918 Public assistance; local director of social services to determine eligibility.

Patron: LeMunyon

Public assistance; determining eligibility. Requires a local director of social services to verify the identity, income, and assets of and other information about an applicant for public assistance necessary to determine the applicant's eligibility for public assistance, consistent with federal law and regulations, for the purpose of eliminating the duplication of assistance, and deterring fraud and to deny public assistance in cases in which information provided by an applicant is inconsistent with information obtained by the local director. The bill requires the Department of Social Services to establish a means to obtain and provide the data necessary for local departments to conduct the required investigation, and to report to the General Assembly by December 1 of each year on the specific types or sources of information local directors used during the past year for the purpose of verifying applicants' identity, income, assets and other information and any types or sources of information the Department plans to make available to local directors to use for such purpose in the future. The Department shall also report the number of applications for public assistance received, approved or denied, or referred for investigation during the past year. The bill also clarifies that eligibility for public assistance shall be reconsidered at least annually or upon receipt of information indicating a change in the recipient's circumstances, and that such reconsideration shall include a review of information necessary to verify the identity, income, and assets of and public information about the recipient.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 63.2-503 and 63.2-514 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public assistance; determining eligibility.

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