VA Code | §63-2 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1577 | TANF; restrictions on use of cash assistance. Prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits in any electronic benefit transaction (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, or sexually expl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| VA | HB2279 | Placement of children. Eliminates language providing that regulations of the Board of Social Services shall not prohibit placement of a nonresident child in a children's residential facility in the Commonwealth by a custodial parent who assumes full ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| VA | SB974 | Nursing homes; electronic monitoring by patients. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations governing the implementation of voluntary electronic monitoring in the rooms of residents of nursing homes, which shall include existing policies ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0682) |
| VA | HB1844 | Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy; privatization. Makes various technical and other statutory changes necessary to implement the privatization of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571) |
| VA | HB1743 | Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0564) |
| VA | HB2271 | Adoption assistance payments and post-adoption services for children adopted from foster care. Requires the Department of Social Services to utilize all federal adoption bonus payments received in a fiscal year to support post-adoption services. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597) |
| VA | HB2193 | Child abuse investigations; employees of school divisions. Expands the class of individuals whom a local department of social services must report to a local school board upon determination that a complaint alleging that such individual has committed... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| VA | HB1582 | Armed security officers; protection of schools and child day centers. Permits any armed security officers licensed by the Department of Criminal Justice Services to carry firearms onto private or religious school property if such officer is hired by ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| VA | SB997 | Photographs of abused, incapacitated adult. Provides that in any case of suspected abuse of an incapacitated adult, photographs, X-rays, and other medical imaging of such incapacitated adult may be taken without the consent of the person responsible ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| VA | HB2122 | Photographs of abused, incapacitated adult. Provides that in any case of suspected abuse of an incapacitated adult, photographs, X-rays, and other medical imaging of such incapacitated adult may be taken without the consent of the person responsible ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442) |
| VA | HB2045 | Foster care and adoption; decisions regarding federal benefits; appeal to the Commissioner. Establishes a right to review by the Commissioner of Social Services of any decision of a local board of social services granting, denying, or changing a bene... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| VA | SB863 | Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362) |
| VA | HB1721 | Child abuse and neglect investigations; time limit for reports. Provides that time during which the local department of social services is waiting to receive records that are necessary for the investigation of alleged sexual abuse of a child or alleg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| VA | SB790 | Emergency medical care services; recertification and appeals. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Health's regulations governing recertification of emergency medical services providers include certain provisions related to testing and other ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| VA | SB750 | Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; notice of liability insurance coverage. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health shall require nursing homes and certified nursing facilities to maintain liability insurance coverage in a minimum ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0320) |
| VA | SB776 | Virginia New Hire Reporting Center; employer reporting of newly hired employees. Expands the obligations of employers to report information about the hiring of employees to the Virginia New Hire Reporting Center. Employers are required to submit info... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| VA | HB1640 | Child care providers; background checks for eligibility for child care subsidy payments. Requires any person seeking to enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services for the provision of child c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261) |
| VA | HB1658 | Clerk's fees; electronic records; certification of records; etc. Revises various powers and duties of circuit court clerks for certification of records, assessment of fees, etc., such as (i) providing that the use of the term "copy teste," "true copy... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0263) |
| VA | HB1439 | Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the requirement for criminal history background checks for children's residential facilities shall also apply to local secure detentio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181) |
| VA | HB1443 | Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) |
| VA | SB1180 | TANF; restrictions on use of cash assistance. Prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits in any electronic benefit transaction (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, or sexually expl... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160) |
| VA | HB1622 | Emergency medical care services; recertification and appeals. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Health's regulations governing recertification of emergency medical services providers include certain provisions related to testing and other ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072) |
| VA | SB992 | Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the requirement for criminal history background checks for children's residential facilities shall also apply to local secure detentio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0096) |
| VA | SB835 | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB862 | Foster care; independent living services. Extends from 60 days to 180 days the period after discontinuation of independent living services during which a person in foster care who has not yet reached the age of 21 may request restoration of independe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB952 | Child support arrearage reduction program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a statewide child support arrearage reduction program whereby the total amount of an arrearage owed to the Department for the payment of public assistan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | HB2284 | Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Reduces from three to one the number of credit references that an applicant for initial licensure as a child welfare agency, assisted living facility, or adult day... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1307 | TANF; restrictions on use of cash assistance. Prohibits the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance paid to an eligible recipient (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, or lottery tickets or (ii) in any ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1412 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW) program participant to determine whether probable cause exist... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1511 | Assisted living facilities; access to temporary emergency electrical power source. Requires the Board of Social Services to include in regulations governing licensed assisted living facilities a requirement that each licensed assisted living facility... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1529 | Justice for Victims of Sterilization Act. Establishes the Justice for Victims of Sterilization Act to provide compensation to persons involuntarily sterilized between 1924 and 1979. The bill creates the Justice for Victims of Sterilization Compensati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1742 | Foster care; independent living services. Extends from 60 days to 180 days the period after discontinuation of independent living services during which a person in foster care who has not yet reached the age of 21 may request restoration of independe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1998 | Food stamps program. Updates obsolete references to Food Stamps program and requires the State Board of Social Services to establish broad-based categorical eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2153 | TANF; restrictions on use of cash benefits. Provides that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families shall not access cash benefits through use of an electronic benefit transfer transaction in any government store established for the sale ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2109 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2009 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1789 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2329 | Death of joint petitioner prior to entry of final order of adoption. Provides that in cases in which married persons, or persons who were previously married who are permitted to adopt a child, have jointly petitioned to adopt a child and one of the p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB721 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW) program participant to determine whether proba... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N) |
| VA | HB1458 | Eligibility for TANF; drug-related felonies. Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families assistance shall not be denied assistance solely because he has been convicted of a felony offense of pos... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | SB869 | Nursing homes; notice of liability insurance coverage. Requires nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities to inform patients and residents about liability insurance available to pay claims of the patient or resident ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Incorporated by Education and Health |
| VA | HB1664 | State partnership health benefit exchange. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to contract with and enter into memoranda of understanding with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency as may be ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Tabled in Commerce and Labor by voice vote |
| VA | SB868 | Criminal history record checks; barrier crimes. Clarifies the list of barrier crimes for individuals seeking employment or seeking to provide contract services at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities and private provider... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1084 | State partnership health benefit exchange. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to contract with and enter into memoranda of understanding with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other state or federal agency as may be ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| VA | SB708 | Assisted living facilities; self-administration of medications. Requires the Board of Social Services to include in regulations governing the administration and management of medications in assisted living facilities developed by the Board of Social ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-25 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB941 | Alleged child abuse or neglect; authority to talk to child or sibling. Limits the authority of a person required to make a report or conduct an investigation or family assessment in cases of alleged child abuse or neglect to talk to a child or his si... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-11 Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB549 | Child support arrearages; publication of names. Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Social Services to publish a list of parents who are delinquent in the payment of child support in order to facilitate locating s... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB24 | Welfare and other entitlement fraud; penalties. Requires a 180-day mandatory minimum sentence for misdemeanor entitlement fraud, a one year mandatory minimum sentence for felony entitlement fraud, a repayment of three times the benefits received, and... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB97 | Barrier crimes; listing of crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes included in the background check and barrier crime statutes affecting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain licensees of the Department of Behavioral... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB6 | Substance abuse screening and assessment of public assistance applicants and recipients. Requires local departments of social services to screen each VIEW program participant to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the participant is en... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
