Virginia House Bill 1441 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 27 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-11 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Persons required to report suspected child abuse or neglect; training. Requires all mandated reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect to complete a training program for the recognition and reporting of suspected child abuse or neglect within six months of employment, licensure, certification, registration, approval to serve as a mediator, or approval to serve as a court-appointed special advocate and at least once every five years thereafter. The bill also requires all employers of mandated reporters, boards that license, certify, or register mandated reporters, courts that refer cases for mediation, and courts that appoint court-appointed special advocates to provide mandated reporters with a written explanation of these requirements within one month of such persons becoming a mandated reporter. Current mandated reporters are given one year to obtain the required training.

Child abuse or neglect, suspected; person required to report, training program required.

Del. Richard Bell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-11	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2015-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-01-16	House	Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
2014-12-27	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2014-12-27	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100910D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	2	1509	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1441
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1441+hil