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2020 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Chair: Barbara A. Favola

Date of Meeting: February 7, 2020
Time and Place: 8:00 am Senate Room A

H.B. 33 Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes.

Patron: Lindsey

Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes. Provides that a person is entitled to parole if (i) such person was sentenced by a jury prior to the date of the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Fishback v. Commonwealth, 260 Va. 104 (June 9, 2000), in which the Court held that a jury should be instructed on the fact that parole has been abolished, for a noncapital felony committed on or after the abolition of parole going into effect (on January 1, 1995) and (ii) the jury was not instructed on the abolition of parole.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-165.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to parole; exception to the limitation on the application of parole statutes.

20105311D

H.B. 35 Juvenile offenders; eligibility for parole.

Patron: Lindsey

Juvenile offenders; parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentence and any person who has active sentences that total more than 25 years for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 25 years of such sentences shall be eligible for parole.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 19.2-387, 19.2-389, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, 19.2-391, 53.1-136, and 53.1-165.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to juvenile offenders; parole.

20100536D

H.B. 94 Adoption; proper notice of proceeding to legal custodian.

Patron: Collins

Legal custodian; parties to a pending custody or visitation case; notice of adoption proceeding. Provides that a legal custodian of a child being placed for adoption, and any other named parties in pending cases in which the custody or visitation of such child is at issue, shall be entitled to proper notice of any adoption proceeding and an opportunity to be heard.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1202 of the Code of Virginia, relating to legal custodian; notice of adoption proceeding.

20102572D

H.B. 278 Home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs.

Patron: Hope

Home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs. Changes from mandatory to optional the current requirement that the director or administrator of a home/electronic incarceration program charge an offender or accused a fee for participating in the program in order to pay for the cost of home/electronic incarceration equipment.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-131.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs.

20100666D

H.B. 369 Furloughs from local work release programs; furlough approved by local sheriff.

Patron: Bell

Furloughs from local work release programs; approval by local sheriff and local chief law-enforcement official. Provides that any furlough permitted by the director of a work release program for an offender participating in the work release program shall be subject to approval by (i) the sheriff of the local jail where the offender is participating in a work release program and (ii) the chief of police, sheriff, or chief law-enforcement official of the locality in which the prisoner will stay.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-132 of the Code of Virginia, relating to furloughs from local work release programs; approval by local sheriff and local chief law-enforcement official.

20106567D

H.B. 598 Alcoholic beverage control; creates annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.

Patron: Murphy

Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license. Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license that (i) may be granted to persons operating food concessions at any performing arts facility located in Fairfax County, provided that the performing arts facility (a) is occupied under a bona fide long-term lease or concession agreement, the original term of which was more than one year and (b) has a total capacity in excess of 1,400 patrons and (ii) authorizes the licensee to sell, on the dates of performances or events, alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-210 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.

20104949D

H.B. 778 Family assessments; increases timeline for completion.

Patron: Jones

Family assessments; timeline. Increases from 45 days to 60 days the allowable time for completing a family assessment by a local department of social services and removes the local department's opportunity to request a 15-day extension.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1506 of the Code of Virginia, relating to family assessments; timeline.

20100614D

H.B. 949 Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of local special events licensees.

Patron: Webert

Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of local special events licensees. Allows a local special events license to be issued to a local historic district that has been designated by a locality. The bill removes the provision limiting local special events licenses to 12 special events per year.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; privileges of local special events licensees.

20106228D

H.B. 1006 Human trafficking; assessments by local departments.

Patron: Herring

Human trafficking assessments by local departments. Changes the name of sex trafficking assessments to human trafficking assessments and allows local departments of social services conducting such human trafficking assessments to interview the alleged child victim or his siblings without the consent and outside the presence of such child's or siblings' parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis, or school personnel. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-1506.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to human trafficking assessments by local departments.

20105035D

H.B. 1137 TANF & Va. Initiative for Education & Work; hardship exception.

Patron: Lopez

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; hardship exception. Requires the Department of Social Services to (i) keep records of the number of Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants that receive an exception to the time limitations on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families due to hardship and the specific circumstances relied upon to grant such exceptions and (ii) annually publish non-identifying statistics regarding such information.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 63.2-613 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; hardship exception.

20101649D

H.B. 1187 Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses, Internet orders and shipments.

Patron: Wampler

Alcoholic beverage control; online sales of spirits by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. Allows the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to establish an online sales platform for the sale and delivery of (i) alcoholic beverages other than beer and wine not produced by farm wineries, (ii) mixers, and (iii) certain products licensed by the Virginia Tourism Corporation to persons located within the Commonwealth.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-119, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses; Internet orders and shipments.

20106518D

H.B. 1328 Offender medical and mental health information and records; exchange of information to facility.

Patron: Watts

Exchange of offender medical and mental health information and records. Provides that a health care provider who has been notified that a person to whom he has provided services is committed to a local or regional correctional facility must disclose to the person in charge of the facility any information necessary and appropriate for the continuity of care of the person committed. The bill also provides protection from civil liability for such health care provider, absent bad faith or malicious intent.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-133.03 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exchange of offender medical and mental health information and records.

20106592D