Bill Text: VA HB587 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Unaccompanied minor housing program; DSS & DHCD to study implementation of program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-01 - Continued to 2025 in Rules by voice vote [HB587 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB587-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 587 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 9, 2024 A BILL to direct the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a work group to study the implementation of an unaccompanied minor housing program; report. ---------- Patron-- McClure ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Social Services and the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Departments) shall convene a work group to study and develop recommendations for the implementation of an unaccompanied minor housing program. Such work group shall include relevant stakeholders as deemed appropriate by the Departments. In completing its work, the work group shall (i) determine the purpose of an unaccompanied minor housing program, (ii) determine which agency would be most appropriate to administer such program, (iii) determine what infrastructure is necessary to manage such program, and (iv) forecast the fiscal impact of such program. The work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by December 1, 2024.