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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: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Medicaid eligibility; young adults transitioning from fostercare. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend thestate plan to provide for the payment of medical assistance, pursuant to TheFoster Care Independence Act of 1999, for any individual who (i) was receivingfoster care services on his eighteenth birthday, (ii) continues to receiveindependent living services pursuant to § 63.2-905.1, and (iii) has not yetreached his twenty-first birthday. Such individuals shall not be subject toMedicaid income limits.
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: 02/12/2008 - Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety Bill Text
Armed security officers; protection of private schools andchild day centers. States that armed security officers, licensed by theDepartment of Criminal Justice Services, may carry firearms onto schoolproperty if such officer is hired by the school to provide protection tostudents and employees, and prohibits the Child Day-Care Council from adoptingany regulations that would prevent a child day center from hiring such an armedsecurity officer.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed House: Adult Fatality Review Team. Establishes the AdultFatality Review Team to review suspicious deaths of any incapacitated adultaged 18 or older and any adult aged 60 or older (i) who was the subject of anadult protective services investigation, (ii) whose death was due to abuse orneglect or acts that suggest abuse or neglect, or (iii) whose death came underthe jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner pursuant to §32.1-283. The bill sets forth duties, membership, confidentiality, reporting,and other requirements for the team. The bill also creates a Freedom ofInformation Act exemption for information and records acquired during a reviewof any death conducted by a family violence fatality review team or during areview of any adult death conducted by the adult fatality review team to the extentmade confidential by state law.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Transitional benefits; TANF noncash benefits. Requiresthe Department of Social Services to continue to provide noncash TANF benefitsfor a period of five months after TANF cash benefits have been terminated.
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: 01/10/2008 - Failed to report Bill Text
Notice to recipients; earned income tax credit. Requiresthe Department of Social Services to provide notice of the earned income taxcredit to all applicants for or recipients of assistance.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Department of Housing and Community Development; rentalassistance pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and CommunityDevelopment to establish a three-year rental assistance pilot project and toreport its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the HousingCommission.
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Latest Action: 02/26/2008 - Signed by President Bill Text
Summary as passed Senate: Foster care; Code of Ethics agreement. Requires the Boardof Social Services to approve, in foster care policy, the language of thewritten agreement to be entered into by local boards and licensed child-placingagencies. This bill also provides that such agreements shall include at aminimum a Code of Ethics and mutual responsibilities for all parties to theagreement. This bill is identical to HB 850 (Orrock).
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Appropriations Bill Text
Transitional benefits; TANF noncash benefits. Requiresthe Department of Social Services to continue to provide noncash TANF benefitsfor a period of five months after TANF cash benefits have been terminated.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Signed by Speaker Bill TextSummary as passed House: Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit. Moves the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit program from Title63.2 [Welfare (Social Services)] to Title 58.1 (Taxation) and providesa cross-reference to the tax credit program in Title 63.2 (§ 63.2-2002).Thebill also provides that in all cases the value of a donated motorvehicle for purposes of computing the neighborhood assistance taxcredit shall be such value as determined under federal income taxlaws. This would replace, in part, a current regulation that providesthat the value for merchandise donated to a neighborhood organizationthat is not used by the organization but is sold, auctioned, or raffledby the organization, shall be the lesser of the value determined forfederal tax purposes or the actual proceeds received by the neighborhoodorganization (22VAC40-41-40). The bill includes language that hasbeen in the budget bill the last two years that (i) reduces the taxcredit from 45 percent to 40 percent of the value [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote Bill Text
Study; Department of Social Services to study foster carecode of ethics; report. Requests the Department of Social Services tostudy and develop a statewide foster care code of ethics and responsibilityagreement. In conducting its study, the Department shall: (i) identify mutualresponsibilities of foster parents, foster care workers, and directors ofchild-placing agencies, including local departments; (ii) develop a foster carecode of ethics and responsibilities agreement to be signed by each foster careparent and worker, as well as the local department of social services' orchild-placing agency's chief executive officer; and (iii) develop a grievanceprocedure to be used for violations of the code of ethics.
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Left in Rules Bill Text
Study; increasing the number of foster families in theCommonwealth; report. Requests the Department of Social Services to studyways of increasing the number of foster families in the Commonwealth.
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Left in Rules Bill Text
Study; Department of Social Services to studyfoster care code of ethics; report. Requests the Department ofSocial Services to study and develop a statewide foster care codeof ethics and responsibility agreement. In conducting its study, theDepartment shall: (i) identify mutual responsibilities of foster parents,foster care workers, and directors of child-placing agencies, includinglocal departments; (ii) develop a foster care code of ethics and responsibilitiesagreement to be signed by each foster care parent and worker, as wellas the local department of social services' or child-placing agency'schief executive officer; and (iii) develop a grievance procedure tobe used for violations of the code of ethics.
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Signed by Speaker Bill Text
Virginia Caregivers Grant Program application; allow physicianassistant or nurse practitioner to certify. Allows that a licensedphysician assistant or nurse practitioner may provide certification necessaryfor the Virginia Caregiver's Grant Program application.
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.
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