15101478D
SENATE BILL NO. 1111
Offered January 14, 2015
Prefiled January 13, 2015
A BILL to amend and reenact §§51.5-31 and 51.5-33 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to Virginia Board for People with Disabilities;
membership; powers and duties.
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Patron-- Barker
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§51.5-31 and 51.5-33 of the Code of Virginia are
amended and reenacted as follows:
§51.5-31. Board created.
There shall be a Virginia Board for People with Disabilities,
responsible to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The Board shall be
composed of 39 members, to include the head or a person designated by the head
of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, Department for the
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, Department of Education, Department of Medical
Assistance Services, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Services, and the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired; one
representative of the protection and advocacy agency
entity; one representative of
the university-affiliated facility center for excellence in developmental disabilities;
one representative each, to be appointed by the Governor, of a local
governmental agency, a manufacturing or a retailing industry, a high-technology
industry, a public transit interest, and a nongovernmental agency or group of
agencies that provide concerned with services for
persons with developmental disabilities; a banking executive; one person with
disabilities other than developmental disabilities; and 24 persons with developmental
disabilities or the, parents or guardians of such persons children with developmental disabilities, or
immediate relatives or guardians of adults with mentally impairing
developmental disabilities who cannot advocate for
themselves. Of the last 24 persons, at least eight one-third shall be persons
with developmental disabilities; at
least eight one-third
shall be a combination of (i) parents
or guardians of children with developmental disabilities and (ii)
immediate relatives or guardians of persons adults with mentally impairing
developmental disabilities who cannot advocate for
themselves; and at one-third shall be a
combination of (i) persons with
developmental disabilities, (ii)
parents or guardians of children with developmental disabilities, and (iii) immediate
relatives or guardians of adults with mentally impairing developmental
disabilities who cannot advocate for themselves. At least one person shall be either (a) an
immediate relative or guardian of an
institutionalized a
person who resides in or previously resided in an
institution or (b) a
person with a developmental disability who
previously resided in an institution. Such
persons shall not be employees of the Virginia
Board for People with Disabilities or "managing
employees," as
defined by the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §1320a-5), of any
other entity that receives funds or provides services under Subtitle B of the
Developmental Disabilities Assistance and
Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-402).
Each member appointed by the Governor shall be appointed for a
four-year term. Members so appointed shall be subject to removal at the
pleasure of the Governor. Any vacancy other than by expiration of a term shall
be filled for the unexpired term. No person appointed by the Governor shall
serve for more than two successive terms.
The Board shall elect its chairman.
§51.5-33. Powers and duties.
The Board shall have the following powers and duties:
1. To advise the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and
Governor on issues and problems of interest to persons with disabilities and on
such other matters as either the Secretary or the Governor may request;
2. To submit every three years to the Governor, through the
Secretary of Health and Human Resources, an assessment of the needs of persons
with disabilities in the Commonwealth, the success in the preceding three years
of the state agencies in meeting those needs, programmatic and fiscal
recommendations for improving the delivery of services to persons with
disabilities, and an assessment of the triennial economic cost and benefit to
the Commonwealth of the services and rights afforded persons with disabilities
as established in this title;
3. To serve as the State Planning
Council on Developmental Disabilities
for the administration of certain federal public health and welfare laws as
provided in 42 U.S.C. § 6000 15001;
4. To perform all duties and exercise all powers designated by
federal law for such state planning
councils on developmental disabilities,
including the responsibility for planning activities on behalf of all
developmentally disabled persons in the Commonwealth; for receiving, accounting
for and disbursing federal funds; for developing and approving the state plan;
and for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of such plan for the
provision of services and facilities for persons with developmental
disabilities;
5. To be responsible for obtaining information and data from
within the Commonwealth, and from time to time, but not less than annually, to
review and evaluate the state plan and submit such state plan, and revisions
thereto, to the Governor and to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services;
6. To appoint hire and supervise the
Director of the Board and prescribe his duties;, including:
7. To hire a. Hiring such
staff and obtain
obtaining the service of such professional, technical, and
clerical personnel necessary to carry out its the Board's powers and duties;
and
8. To accept b. Accepting
gifts and grants on behalf of the Commonwealth, in
furtherance of the purpose of this Board.
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