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Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Screened Family Day Home Provider List. Requires theDepartment of Social Services to establish and maintain, on a website createdby the Department, the Screened Family Day Home Provider List. This bill providesthat the List shall include the names of individuals who wish to offer theirservices as family day home providers, who are not required to be licensed orregulated, who voluntarily apply for inclusion on the List, and who have beenfound, after a national criminal history background check and review of therecords maintained by the Child Protective Services registry, to have noconvictions for certain offenses or founded complaints of child abuse orneglect. This bill also establishes a Screened Family Day Home Provider Fund toreceive application fees and disburse funds for the administration of the List.The provisions of the bill are subject to the appropriation of funds by the2008 General Assembly.
Latest Action: 02/08/2008 - Continued to 2009 in Appropriations by voice vote Bill Text
Enhanced penalty for stalking of a minor. Providesthat if at the time of the offense of stalking, the victim is a minor and theoffender is 10 or more years older than the victim, the sentence imposed shallinclude a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 30 days. The bill alsoprovides that (i) for a second such conviction occurring within five years thepenalty shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 60 days and(ii) for a third conviction of stalking occurring within five years the penaltyshall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 90 days.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Sex offenses; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1misdemeanor for any person 18 years of age or older to, with lascivious intent,kiss a child under the age of 13 on the mouth while knowingly and intentionallypenetrating the mouth of such child with his tongue. A convicted offender mustregister on the sex offender registry.
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote Bill Text
Mandated coverage for habilitative servicesfor children. Requires insurance companies to provide coveragefor habilitative services for children.
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Parental notification of minor's mental health treatment. Requires any employee or designee of any community services board or behavioralhealth authority, or any other state or local employee other than an employeeof a local school board who provides mental health treatment to a minor tonotify the minor's parent, legal guardian, or person standing in loco parentisof the provision of services within five days of the provision of services,unless the employee or designee of the community services board or behavioralhealth authority or other state or local employee providing mental healthtreatment determines that, in their professional judgment, notice to theparent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis would be reasonablylikely to cause substantial harm to the minor or another person.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in General Laws Bill Text
Providing alcohol to underaged drinker; penalty. Providesthat if a person is found guilty of providing alcohol to an underaged personand the underaged person to whom he provided or assisted in giving alcohol washis child or in his home or under his supervision at the time of the offense,the person shall have his license to operate a motor vehicle suspended for aperiod of one year. The current penalty for any offender includeslicense suspension for no more than one year.
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Filing of petition for adoption. Provides that apetition filed while a child is under 18 years of age shall not become invalidbecause the child reaches 18 years of age prior to the entry of a final orderof adoption and that any final order of adoption entered after a child reaches18 years of age, where the petition was filed prior to the child turning 18years of age, shall have the same effect as if the child was under 18 years ofage at the time the order was entered by the circuit court, provided the courthas obtained the consent of the adoptee.
Latest Action: 03/08/2008 - Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation Bill Text
Summary as passed: Independent living services and independent living arrangements.Defines independent living arrangement as placement of a child at least 16years of age who is in the custody of a local board or licensed child-placingagency and has been placed by the local board or licensed child placing agencyin a living arrangement which does not include daily parental supervision.Defines independent living services to include services and activities providedto a child in foster care who is 16 years of age or older or to a person whowas in foster care on his 18th birthday and has not yet reached the age of 21.This bill requires, for children aged 14 years and older that the child's needsand goals in specified areas are included in the written foster care plan forthat child.
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Human papillomavirus vaccine; effective date. Extendsthe effective date of the requirement for sixth grade girls to receive thehuman papillomavirus vaccine from October 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Offenses prohibiting proximity to children; penalty. Providesthat any adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity tochildren, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2008, shall as part ofhis sentence be forever prohibited from going, for the purpose of having anycontact whatsoever with children that are not in his custody, within 100 feetof the premises of any place owned or operated by a locality that he knows orshould know is a playground, athletic field or facility, or gymnasium. Aviolation is a Class 6 felony. This bill incorporates HB 705.
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Latest Action: 01/25/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services Bill Text
Definition of abused or neglected child; Abraham's law.Removes language specifying that a decision by parents or another person withlegal authority over a child to refuse a particular medical treatment for achild with a life-threatening condition shall not be deemed a refusal toprovide necessary care if (i) such decision is made jointly by the parents orother person with legal authority for the child and the child; (ii) the childhas reached 14 years of age and is sufficiently mature to have an informedopinion on the subject of his medical treatment; (iii) the parents or otherperson with legal authority and the child have considered alternative treatmentoptions; and (iv) the parents or other person with legal authority and thechild believe in good faith that such decision is in the child's best interest.
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation Bill Text
Summary as passed: Adoption by former stepparents. Allows formerstep-parents to adopt the child they were a stepparent to, if they stood inloco parentis to the child, as if they were still the stepparent of the child.Also allows parents who adopted a child in a foreign jurisdiction, who thendivorced before the child was adopted in Virginia, to adopt or readopt thechild.
Latest Action: 03/08/2008 - Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation Bill Text
Summary as enacted with Governor's Recommendation: Adoption; period of validity of home study. Provides that any home study conducted for the purpose of parentalplacement or agency placement shall be valid for a period of 36 months from thedate of completion of the study. However, the Board may, by regulation, requirean additional state criminal background check before finalizing an adoption ifmore than 18 months have passed from the completion of the home study.
Latest Action: 03/09/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed: Consent revocation period for parental placement adoptions. Provides that consent to an adoption may be revoked by a birth parent forup to seven days after it is executed and that the seven day revocation periodmay be waived in writing at the time of consent provided that the child is atleast 10 days old and the birth parent acknowledges having received independentlegal counsel regarding the effect of such waiver. In the case of twoconsenting birth parents, the waiver by one consenting birth parent shall notaffect the right of the second consenting birth parent to retain his seven-dayrevocation period. This bill eliminates the provision barring revocation ofconsent after a child is 10 days old.
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote Bill Text
Study; juvenile transfers; report. Requests the AdvisoryCommittee on Juvenile Justice to study the process of determining whether ajuvenile should be tried as an adult.
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - Passed by in Commerce and Labor with letter by voice vote Bill Text
Mandated coverage for habilitative servicesfor children. Requires insurance companies to provide coveragefor habilitative services for children.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Finance Bill Text
Income tax; qualified adoption expenses tax credit.Provides a tax credit for individuals with qualified adoption expenses, in anamount up to $4,000, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/08/2008 - Bill text as passed House and Senate Bill Text
Designating October as Right Choices for Youth Month inVirginia. Designates October in 2008, and in each year thereafter, as RightChoices for Youth Month in Virginia to promote the formation of character andintegrity in young Virginians.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill TextSummary as passed: HIV/Hepatitis testing; consent for minors. Clarifies the procedure for obtaining consent for testing for HIV or hepatitisB or C viruses of a minor when the person exposed is a health care provider,law enforcement officer, or school board employee. This bill provides thatwhere a blood sample is required from a minor for testing, and the minorrefuses to provide the sample, consent for obtaining the sample shall beobtained from the parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of theminor. This bill further providers that where the parent, guardian, or personstanding in loco parentis of the minor withholds consent or is not reasonablyavailable to consent, the person potentially exposed to HIV or hepatitis B or Cviruses or the employer of such person may petition the juvenile and domesticrelations district court in the county or city where the minor resides orresided or, in the case of a nonresident, the county or city where the healthcare provider, law enforcement [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Blood donation by minors. Allows minors aged 16or older to donate blood where such minors meet the donation requirements andhave the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
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