VA SB1406 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-22 - Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:00 am in House Committee Room C - 206
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 14 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-22 - Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:00 am in House Committee Room C - 206
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Office of the Children's Ombudsman; foster youth's right to receive information. Requires the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or any child-placing agency to provide certain information along with the contact information for the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to a biological parent, prospective adoptive parent, or foster parent, as well as to any child in foster care age 12 or older upon the opening of a foster care case for such child. The bill also provides that, in relation to complaints made to the Ombudsman, if such child is the complainant, the Ombudsman need not gain the consent of the Department or local department of social services, the children's residential facility, the child-placing agency, or the foster parent or guardian of the child or other person having custody or care of the child to receive information from or communicate with the child.
Title
Children's Ombudsman, Office of the; foster youths right to receive information.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-22 - Senate - Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-22 | Senate | Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-15 | Senate | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1406) |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Presented and ordered printed 25103787D |
